Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 87
"Here it is splendid in summer!" she said, and they passed by old castles of the age of chivalry.
Who acts: thyme, girl, anemones · What happens: be, say, pass · 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 (thyme, girl, anemones), 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 splendid | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 splendid | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 splendid | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 splendid | cop |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | parataxis |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 summer | case |
| 7 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splendid | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 splendid | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 splendid | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 passed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 passed | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 passed | nsubj |
| 15 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 castles | case |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 castles | amod |
| 18 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 passed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 age | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 age | det |
| 21 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 castles | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 chivalry | case |
| 23 | chivalry | chivalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 age | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | thyme | here | summer | splendid property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pass | past | anemones = anemone | by old castles of the age of chivalry | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by castle=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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