Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 37

"We make it lively about the house," said the sparrow-mother; "and people say that a swallows' nest brings luck; so they are glad of us.

Who acts: We, sparrow mother, people, nest · What happens: make, say, bring, be · To what, where: better, luck · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sparrow mother, people, nest), 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 make	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lively	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 make	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
13	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mother	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sparrow	punct
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 say	cc
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 brings	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 swallows	det
23	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 nest	nmod:poss
24	'	's	PART	_	23 swallows	case
25	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brings	nsubj
26	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 say	ccomp
27	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brings	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 glad	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	32 glad	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 glad	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 glad	cop
32	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 us	case
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 glad	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present	We	better = good	lively property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the sparrow mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring in a quote	present	a swallows's nest	luck		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	people		of us; glad property	tree rules

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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