Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 71

On seeing the sparrow which the boys had brought, and which they said they did not want, he asked, "Shall we make it look very pretty?"

Who acts: boy, sparrows, we, soap · What happens: see, bring, say, not want, ask, make · To what, where: sparrow, soap · 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 (boy, sparrows, we, soap), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 seeing	mark
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 asked	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sparrow	det
4	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeing	obj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 brought	nsubj:pass
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boys	det
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brought	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brought	aux
9	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sparrow	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 said	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seeing	conj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 want	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 want	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 want	advmod
18	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 seeing	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
24	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 asked	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	obj
28	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 make	xcomp
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 pretty	advmod
30	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	28 look	advmod
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	boy not said here	the sparrow		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sparrow=Stimulus
2	bring	past · perfect · passive		the sparrow		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	sparrows = sparrow			tree rules
4	not want	past · do-support	sparrows = sparrow			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	ask speech: ask	past	boy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	make in a quote	shall	we	soap		tree rules
7	look in a quote	infinitive	soap not said here		pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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