Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 5
Oh, it is Rudy," said the maidens; but they did not say, "Save yourselves from Rudy."
Who acts: marksman, Rudy, maidens · What happens: be, say, not say, save · To what, where: Rudy, maidens, yourselves · 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 (marksman, Rudy, maidens), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 Rudy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Rudy | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Rudy | cop |
| 5 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rudy | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rudy | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maidens | det |
| 10 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 say | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 say | advmod |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Save | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Save | punct |
| 19 | Save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 say | conj |
| 20 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 Save | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Rudy | case |
| 22 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Save | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | marksman | Rudy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Rudy | the maidens | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | maidens = maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | maidens = maiden not said here | yourselves | Rudy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme from rudy=Source |
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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