Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 67

"I would let the dogs loose after him" she said; "over the moor and across the heath.

Who acts: I · What happens: let, say · To what, where: dogs · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dogs	det
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 let	obj
7	loose	loose	ADV	_	4 let	advmod
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loose	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 moor	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 moor	punct
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 moor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moor	det
17	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 heath	cc
19	across	across	ADP	_	21 heath	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 heath	det
21	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 moor	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	would	I	the dogs				loose property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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