Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 131

We have always had the reputation of being pious, so we will allow them to pick up the corn with us; they don't interrupt our talk, and they scrape so prettily when they bow."

Who acts: We, reputation, man, our · What happens: have, be, allow, pick up, not interrupt, scrape · To what, where: reputation, man, corn, talk

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, reputation, man, our), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reputation	det
6	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 pious	mark
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 pious	cop
9	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reputation	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 allow	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 allow	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 allow	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 allow	aux
14	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 allow	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pick	mark
17	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 allow	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 pick	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 corn	det
20	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pick	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 pick	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 interrupt	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 interrupt	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 interrupt	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 interrupt	advmod
27	interrupt	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	parataxis
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 talk	nmod:poss
29	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 interrupt	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 scrape	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 scrape	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 scrape	nsubj
33	scrape	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 interrupt	conj
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 prettily	advmod
35	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	33 scrape	advmod
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 bow	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 bow	nsubj
38	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 scrape	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	We	the reputation		always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient
2	is	gerund	the reputation not said here			pious property	tree rules
3	allow	future	we		man		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	pick up not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	the corn		with us	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Topic
5	not interrupt	present · do-support	man	our talk			tree rules
6	scrape	present	man			prettily property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	bow	present	man				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	talk		our				nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=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: «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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