Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 27
"We'll dance the bung out of the cask at carnival time," said he; "I'll prepare a merry tune for you and for myself too.
Who acts: We, luggage · What happens: dance, say, prepare · To what, where: bung, cask, merry tune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, luggage), 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 | _ | 4 dance | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dance | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 dance | aux |
| 4 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bung | det |
| 6 | bung | bung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dance | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 cask | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cask | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cask | det |
| 10 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dance | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | carnival | carnival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | compound |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dance | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dance | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dance | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 prepare | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 prepare | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 prepare | nsubj |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 prepare | aux |
| 22 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tune | det |
| 24 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tune | amod |
| 25 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prepare | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 tune | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 myself | cc |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 myself | case |
| 30 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 you | conj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 prepare | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance in a quote | future | We | the bung | the cask | time | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme bung=Destination out cask=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | luggage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | prepare in a quote | future | luggage | a merry tune | for you | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tune=Product for you=Beneficiary |
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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