Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 94

“You had better lay the cloth below in the stable,” said one of the travellers; “there, at all events, one knows what one is breathing.”

Who acts: You, one · What happens: have, lay, say, know, breathe · To what, where: cloth, stable · 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 (You, one), 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	_	3 had	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	xcomp
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cloth	det
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obj
8	below	below	ADV	_	7 cloth	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 stable	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stable	det
11	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 said	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 travellers	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 travellers	det
18	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 there	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 there	punct
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 said	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 events	punct
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 events	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 events	det
25	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 there	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knows	punct
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 knows	nsubj
28	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 there	parataxis
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 breathing	obj
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 breathing	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 breathing	aux
32	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 knows	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	You			good property	tree rules
2	lay in a quote	infinitive	You not said here	the cloth	the stable		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme in stable=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	one of the travellers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	know in a quote	present	one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	breathe in a quote	present · progressive	one				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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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