Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 34

“Black snails, I dare say, there are enough of,” said the old one.

Who acts: I, Black snails, old one · What happens: dare, say, be · To what, where: Black snails · 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 (I, Black snails, old one), 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	_	3 snails	punct
2	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snails	amod
3	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 are	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dare	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dare	nsubj
6	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 snails	acl:relcl
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dare	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 snails	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 of	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 of	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 are	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dare in a quote	present	I	Black snails not said here		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent snail=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	I not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	does in a quote	present	Black snails		there	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the old one			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: «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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