Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 23

Now he said that there were just as many inhabitants as he had nails in his body; and he was very proud.

Who acts: krabledy · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: many inhabitants, nails, body · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (krabledy), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 were	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 inhabitants	amod
10	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	advcl
14	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 body	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 body	nmod:poss
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 proud	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 proud	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 proud	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 proud	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 proud	advmod
23	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	krabledy	many inhabitants		now		tree rules
2	be	past			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	krabledy	nails	krabledy's body			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient
4	is	past	krabledy				proud 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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