Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 53
"'And their children have had children again,' said the old sailor. '
Who acts: children · What happens: have, say · To what, where: children, old sailor · 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 (children), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 3 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | aux |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 had | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sailor | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sailor | amod |
| 15 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present · perfect | Mary's children | children | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old sailor | 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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