Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 43

“Come, let us be men!” said he, involuntarily imitating the chatter of the Parrot, and at the same moment he was again a copying-clerk; but he was sitting in the middle of the table.

Who acts: men, window, Parrot · What happens: come, let, be, say, imitate, sit · To what, where: us, chatter, copying clerk, middle · 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 (men, window, Parrot), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 be	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 imitating	punct
13	involuntarily	involuntarily	ADV	_	14 imitating	advmod
14	imitating	imitate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chatter	det
16	chatter	chatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 imitating	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Parrot	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Parrot	det
19	Parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chatter	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 clerk	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 clerk	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 moment	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moment	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 moment	amod
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 clerk	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 clerk	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 clerk	cop
28	again	again	ADV	_	32 clerk	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 clerk	det
30	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 clerk	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 copying	punct
32	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 imitating	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 sitting	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 sitting	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sitting	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sitting	aux
37	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 middle	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 middle	det
40	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sitting	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 table	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 table	det
43	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 middle	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
3	be in a quote	infinitive	men					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: express	past	window					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	imitate	gerund	window not said here	the chatter of the Parrot			involuntarily property	vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chatter=Theme
6	is a	past	window	a copying clerk		again; moment		tree rules
7	sit	past · progressive	window		the middle of the table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
8	chatter		the Parrot					nom chatter «communication intransitive»: of=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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