Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 2

"We'll have a play too," he said, "and it may begin immediately."

Who acts: We, grandpapa, play · What happens: have, say, begin · To what, where: play · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, grandpapa, play), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 play	det
6	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 begin	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begin	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 begin	aux
17	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	17 begin	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 begin	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	future	We	a play		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	grandpapa			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin in a quote	may	play		immediately property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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