Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 92

"First, let all the twelve come to me," said the captain on duty, "one after another.

Who acts: twelve, captain · What happens: let, come, say · To what, where: captain · 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 (twelve, captain), 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 let	punct
2	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 let	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 First	punct
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 twelve	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 twelve	det
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 captain	det
15	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 duty	case
17	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 captain	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 captain	appos
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 another	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 one	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive			first property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	infinitive	all twelve	the captain = captain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the captain			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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