Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 72
"Now we must return;" he said; "you will be missed."
Who acts: we, song · What happens: return, say, miss · To what, where: you · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, song), 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 | _ | 5 return | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 return | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 return | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 return | aux |
| 5 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 return | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 missed | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 missed | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 missed | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 missed | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 missed | aux:pass |
| 15 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 return | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 return | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return in a quote | must | we | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | song | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | miss in a quote | future · passive | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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