Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 151

“You have had a good sleep while I have been sitting here, and arguing with him whether it was a story or a fairy tale.”

Who acts: You, mother, sleep · What happens: have, sit, argue, be · To what, where: good sleep, story

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, mother, sleep), 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 had	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sleep	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sleep	amod
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 sitting	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sitting	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 sitting	aux
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 had	advcl
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sitting	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 arguing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 arguing	cc
16	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sitting	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 arguing	obl
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	23 story	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 story	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 story	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 story	det
23	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 arguing	advcl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 tale	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tale	det
26	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tale	amod
27	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 story	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present · perfect	You	a good sleep			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient
2	sit in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	man's mother = mother		here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	argue speech: disagree in a quote	gerund	man's mother = mother not said here			with man	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
4	is a in a quote	past	sleep	a story or a fairy tale			tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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