Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 7
"Hold yourselves properly in the line with us," cried papa and mamma. "
Who acts: you, papa · What happens: hold, cry · To what, where: yourselves, line · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, papa), 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 | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 2 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Hold | obj |
| 4 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 2 Hold | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 line | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 line | det |
| 7 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hold | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Hold | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hold | parataxis |
| 13 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mamma | cc |
| 15 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 papa | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in a quote | imperative | you not said here | yourselves | the line | with us; properly property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | papa and mamma | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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