Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 56

Father Snail could not speak, he was too much affected; and so they gave them as a dowry and inheritance, the whole forest of burdocks, and said--what they had always said--that it was the best in the world; and if they lived honestly and decently, and increased and multiplied, they and their children would once in the course of time come to the manor-house, be boiled black, and laid on silver dishes.

Who acts: Father Snail, snails, noise, burdock · What happens: not speak, affect, give, say, be, live · To what, where: whole, noise, world, course, silver dishes · 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 (Father Snail, snails, noise, burdock), 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	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Snail	compound
2	Snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speak	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 speak	advmod
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 affected	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 affected	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 affected	aux:pass
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 affected	nsubj:pass
11	affected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 speak	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 so	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 gave	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 dowry	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dowry	det
20	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 inheritance	cc
22	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dowry	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 forest	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 forest	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 forest	amod
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dowry	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 burdocks	case
28	burdocks	burdock	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 forest	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gave	conj
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 said	obj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	aux
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 said	advmod
37	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 said	ccomp
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 best	punct
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 best	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 best	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 best	cop
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 best	det
43	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 said	parataxis
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 world	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 world	det
46	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 best	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 lived	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 lived	cc
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 lived	mark
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 lived	nsubj
51	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gave	conj
52	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	51 lived	advmod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 decently	cc
54	decently	decently	ADV	_	52 honestly	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 increased	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 increased	cc
57	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gave	conj
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 multiplied	cc
59	multiplied	multiply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 increased	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 come	punct
61	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 would	nsubj
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 would	cc
63	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 children	nmod:poss
64	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 would	nsubj
65	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	72 come	aux
66	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	65 would	advmod
67	in	in	ADP	_	69 course	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 course	det
69	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 come	obl
70	of	of	ADP	_	71 time	case
71	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 course	nmod
72	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 speak	conj
73	to	to	ADP	_	77 house	case
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 house	det
75	manor	manor	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 house	compound
76	-	-	PUNCT	_	75 manor	punct
77	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 come	obl
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 boiled	punct
79	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	80 boiled	aux:pass
80	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	72 come	parataxis
81	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	80 boiled	xcomp
82	,	,	PUNCT	_	84 laid	punct
83	and	and	CCONJ	_	84 laid	cc
84	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	80 boiled	conj
85	on	on	ADP	_	87 dishes	case
86	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 dishes	compound
87	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	84 laid	obl
88	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	could	Father Snail					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	affect	past · passive		whole				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	give	past	snails = snail		noise		as a dowry and inheritance and the whole forest of burdocks	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	snails = snail not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect	noise				always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	is	past	burdock			the world	good property	tree rules
7	live a condition, not said to happen	past	noise				honestly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	increase	past	snails = snail not said here					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
9	multiply	past	snails = snail not said here					vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	come	would	Father Snail not said here			the course of time	to the manor house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
11	boil	infinitive · passive					black property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»
12	lay	participle				silver dishes		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on dish=Destination

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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