Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 71
Hooray! now we shall ride far away, many miles!" said the boy; "we shall ride to the nobleman's estate where we were last year."
Who acts: we, boy · What happens: ride, say, be · To what, where: estate, last year · 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 (we, boy), 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 | Hooray | hooray | INTJ | _ | 6 ride | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hooray | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ride | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ride | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 ride | aux |
| 6 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 ride | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 miles | punct |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 miles | amod |
| 11 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | ccomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 miles | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 miles | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 ride | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 ride | punct |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ride | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 ride | aux |
| 21 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 estate | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 nobleman | det |
| 24 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 estate | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 nobleman | case |
| 26 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ride | obl |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 year | advmod |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 year | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 year | cop |
| 30 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 year | amod |
| 31 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 estate | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 ride | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | shall | we | now | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ride | shall | we | the nobleman's estate | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to estate=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | we | last year | 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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