Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 42

I lie on the sea,” said Corsor; “I have high roads and gardens, and I have given birth to a poet who was witty and amusing, which all poets are not.

Who acts: I, Corsor, poet · What happens: lie, say, have, give, be, not poet · To what, where: sea, high roads, birth, poet · 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 (I, Corsor, poet), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lie	nsubj
2	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lie	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lie	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 lie	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lie	conj
9	Corsor	Corsor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lie	conj
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 roads	amod
15	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gardens	cc
17	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 roads	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 given	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 given	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 given	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 given	aux
22	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 lie	parataxis
23	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 given	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 poet	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 poet	det
26	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 given	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 witty	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 witty	cop
29	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 poet	acl:relcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 amusing	cc
31	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 witty	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 poets	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 poets	nsubj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 poets	det
35	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 poet	conj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 not	cop
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 poets	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present	I			the sea		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sea=Location
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Corsor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	I	high roads and gardens				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
4	give	present · perfect	I	birth	a poet and all poets			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to poet=Recipient
5	is	past	a poet and all poets				witty property	tree rules
6	be		a poet and all poets not said here					tree rules
7	not poet		a poet and all poets					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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