Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 17

"We will take this with us," said the angel, "I will tell you why as we fly along."

Who acts: We, angel · What happens: take, say, tell, fly · To what, where: this, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, angel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 take	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 angel	det
12	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 fly	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 fly	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 fly	nsubj
22	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	advcl
23	along	along	ADV	_	22 fly	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	future	We	this		with us	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the angel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the angel = angel		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	fly in a quote	present	we			along property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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