Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 122
Yes, it will come,' said he; and we joined our hands together, and I went home to my mistress.
Who acts: maiden, Eric, we, I · What happens: come, say, join, go · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, Eric, we, I), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 come | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 joined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 joined | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 joined | nsubj |
| 13 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | parataxis |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 joined | obj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 joined | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 joined | conj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 mistress | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | maiden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Eric | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | join | past | we | our hands | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 4 | go | past | I | to my mistress; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mistress=Initial_Location |
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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