Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 90
"Well, now the coach may drive away," said the sentry; "we have the whole twelve.
Who acts: coach, sentry, we · What happens: drive away, say, have · To what, where: whole twelve · 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 (coach, sentry, we), 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 | _ | 8 drive | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 drive | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 coach | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coach | det |
| 6 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 drive | aux |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 drive | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drive | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 drive | 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 | 14 sentry | det |
| 14 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 twelve | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 twelve | amod |
| 21 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive away in a quote | may | the coach | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the sentry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | the whole twelve | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient |
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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