Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 34
"Oh, take me with you," cried Christina; and she sprang after him.
Who acts: you, Christina · What happens: take, cry, spring · To what, where: Christina · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Christina), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 take | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | parataxis |
| 11 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sprang | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sprang | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sprang | nsubj |
| 15 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sprang | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Christina | with you | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Christina | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spring | past | Christina | after Ib | vn run-51.3.2 «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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