Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 16
"Ah, yes," he replied; "and fall into some crevasse.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: reply, fall · To what, where: crevasse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 replied | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fall | cc |
| 12 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 crevasse | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 crevasse | det |
| 15 | crevasse | crevasse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fall | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Rudy | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | infinitive | Rudy not said here | into some crevasse result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into crevasse=Result |
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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