Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 46

"'I will go to your father at once,' said he; 'it is the most honorable way.'

Who acts: father, canton · What happens: go, say, be · To what, where: honorable way · 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 (father, canton), 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	_	5 go	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 father	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 way	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 way	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 honorable	advmod
21	honorable	honorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	father		to your father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	canton	the honorable way		tree rules

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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