Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 10
They must have returned home by this time," said he to himself, "it is already two days over the time which they fixed upon.
Who acts: things, Rudy, longing · What happens: return, say, be, fix · To what, where: Rudy, two days, time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, Rudy, longing), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 returned | aux |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 days | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 days | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 days | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 days | cop |
| 19 | already | already | ADV | _ | 20 two | advmod |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 days | nummod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 days | nmod |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 fixed | obj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fixed | nsubj |
| 27 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 time | acl:relcl |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 fixed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | must · perfect | things = thing | time | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Rudy | Rudy | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | longing | two days | time | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fix | past | things = thing | the time | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
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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