Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 97
"I daresay I shall have more wives and children than you," said the second.
Who acts: I · What happens: daresay, have, say · To what, where: more wives, second · 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 (I), 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 daresay | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 daresay | nsubj |
| 3 | daresay | daresay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 daresay | ccomp |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 wives | amod |
| 8 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 children | cc |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wives | conj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 children | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 daresay | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 daresay | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 second | det |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daresay in a quote | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | shall | I | more wives and children than you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the second | 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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