Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 23

“I would willingly go to the manorhouse, be boiled, and laid on a silver dish; all our forefathers have been treated so; there is something extraordinary in it, you may be sure!”

Who acts: dame, something, you · What happens: go, boil, lay, treat, be · To what, where: manorhouse, silver dish, forefathers

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dame, something, you), 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 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 manorhouse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 manorhouse	det
8	manorhouse	manorhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boiled	punct
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 boiled	aux:pass
11	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 go	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laid	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laid	cc
14	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 boiled	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 dish	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dish	det
17	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dish	compound
18	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 treated	punct
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 forefathers	det:predet
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 forefathers	nmod:poss
22	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 treated	nsubj:pass
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 treated	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 treated	aux:pass
25	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 go	conj
26	so	so	ADV	_	25 treated	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 is	expl
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	conj
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 is	nsubj
31	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 something	amod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 extraordinary	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sure	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 sure	nsubj
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 sure	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 sure	cop
38	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	parataxis
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	would	the dame = dame		the manorhouse	willingly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to manorhouse=Initial_Location
2	boil in a quote	infinitive · passive					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»
3	lay in a quote	participle			a silver dish		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on dish=Destination
4	treat in a quote	present · perfect · passive		our forefathers			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	be in a quote	present	something		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is in a quote	may	you			sure property	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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