Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 3
Save yourselves from Rudy," they might well say.
Who acts: you, they · What happens: save, say · To what, where: yourselves, Rudy · 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, they), 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 | Save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Save | obj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Rudy | case |
| 4 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Save | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | aux |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 say | advmod |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Save | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | imperative | you not said here | yourselves | Rudy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme from rudy=Source | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | might | they | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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