Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 17

No, the right ones come by themselves and knock at my forehead saying: 'Here I am.'"

Who acts: right ones, I · What happens: come, knock, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (right ones, I), 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 come	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knock	cc
10	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 forehead	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 forehead	nmod:poss
13	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knock	obl
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 knock	advcl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Here	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Here	punct
17	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 saying	ccomp
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 Here	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Here	cop
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	present	the right ones	by tales = tale	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location
2	knock	infinitive	the right ones not said here	at my forehead	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at forehead=Patient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the right ones not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I	here property	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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