Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 64
"'Very well; I will give her to you when you bring me the young eaglet alive,' said the miller; and he laughed till the tears stood in his eyes. '
Who acts: miller, you, Rudy, tears · What happens: give, bring, say, laugh, stand · To what, where: Babette, young eaglet, miller, eyes · 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 (miller, you, Rudy, tears), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 3 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 give | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 bring | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 eaglet | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eaglet | amod |
| 18 | eaglet | eaglet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 19 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bring | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 miller | det |
| 24 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 laughed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 laughed | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 laughed | nsubj |
| 28 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | parataxis |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 stood | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tears | det |
| 31 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 stood | nsubj |
| 32 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 laughed | advcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 eyes | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 stood | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | miller | Babette | to you; well property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present | you | the young eaglet | miller | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination eaglet=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | miller not said here | the miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent miller=Topic | ||||
| 4 | laugh in a quote | past | Rudy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stand in a quote | past | the tears | Rudy's eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eye=Location |
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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