Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 174
"Come and visit us at Bex," whispered Babette; "my father will be pleased to see you."
Who acts: you, Babette, father · What happens: come, visit, whisper, be, see · To what, where: us, Bex, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Babette, father), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 visit | cc |
| 4 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 visit | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Bex | case |
| 7 | Bex | Bex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 visit | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whispered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 whispered | punct |
| 10 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Bex | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 whispered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 pleased | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 pleased | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pleased | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 pleased | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 pleased | cop |
| 18 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Come | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 pleased | xcomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | visit in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | us | Bex | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | Babette | Bex not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bex=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | my father | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | my father not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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