Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 3

The great white snails which persons of quality in former times made fricassees of, ate, and said, “Hem, hem! how delicious!” for they thought it tasted so delicate--lived on dock-leaves, and therefore burdock seeds were sown.

Who acts: persons, delightfulness · What happens: make, eat, say, think, taste, live · To what, where: great white snails, dock leaves, burdock seeds · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (persons, delightfulness), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snails	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snails	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snails	amod
4	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	obl
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 persons	det
6	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 quality	case
8	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 persons	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 times	case
10	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	obl
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	fricassees	fricassee	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 fricassees	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ate	punct
16	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Hem	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 Hem	punct
22	Hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 delicious	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hem	punct
24	hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Hem	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 Hem	punct
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 delicious	advmod
27	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	ccomp
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 delicious	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 delicious	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 thought	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thought	nsubj
32	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 delicious	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tasted	nsubj
34	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 thought	ccomp
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 delicate	advmod
36	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tasted	xcomp
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 lived	punct
38	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 delicate	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 leaves	case
40	dock	dock	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 leaves	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 dock	punct
42	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 lived	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sown	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sown	cc
45	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	49 sown	advmod
46	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 seeds	compound
47	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 sown	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 sown	aux:pass
49	sown	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 made	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	which persons of quality	the great white snails		time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fricassee=Product
2	eat	past	which persons of quality not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	which persons of quality not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	persons = person					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	taste	past	delightfulness				delicate property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	live	participle	delightfulness not said here		dock leaves			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Location
7	sow	past · passive		burdock seeds			therefore property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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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