Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 37
Ib helped her up, and said, "Never mind; follow me.
Who acts: Ib · What happens: help up, say, not mind, follow · To what, where: Christina, Ib · 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 (Ib), 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 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 helped | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 helped | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 helped | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mind | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mind | punct |
| 10 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 mind | advmod |
| 11 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 follow | punct |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mind | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 follow | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help up | past | Ib | Christina | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ib not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | follow in a quote | infinitive | Ib | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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