Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 11

This must be a great dog,' they said, and began to stroke him.

Who acts: This, children · What happens: be, say, begin, stroke · To what, where: great dog, Moon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, children), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 dog	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dog	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dog	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dog	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 dog	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 stroke	mark
15	stroke	stroke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stroke	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	must	This	a great dog	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	children = child		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	children = child not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	stroke	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	Moon	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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