Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 27
But the goats said farewell; they bleated and wanted to go with him, they were so very sorry.
Who acts: goats · What happens: say, bleat, want, go, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goats), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goats | det |
| 3 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 bleated | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bleated | nsubj |
| 8 | bleated | bleat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wanted | cc |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bleated | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sorry | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sorry | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sorry | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 sorry | advmod |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 sorry | advmod |
| 20 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bleated | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the goats | farewell property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bleat | past | goats = goat | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | want | past | goats = goat not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | goats = goat not said here | with Rudy | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | is | past | goats = goat | sorry property | tree rules |
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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