Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 10

“If my mistress and all her friends can laugh at what I say, so may you too, I should think.

Who acts: mistress, uncouth birds · What happens: laugh, say, think · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, uncouth birds), 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	_	10 laugh	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	10 laugh	mark
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mistress	nmod:poss
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laugh	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 friends	cc
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 friends	det:predet
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friends	nmod:poss
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mistress	conj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 laugh	aux
10	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 laugh	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 may	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 may	advmod
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 laugh	advcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 may	nsubj
19	too	too	ADV	_	17 may	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 think	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 think	aux
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 laugh	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	laugh in a quote	can	my mistress and bird's friends	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	that uncouth birds = bird	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other in a quote	should	that uncouth birds = bird	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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