Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 56

The Waistcoat has a laydown collar, and is very modest; but he knows his own value, and has quite a right to say what he says:

Who acts: Waistcoat, grandpapa · What happens: have, be, know, say, value · To what, where: laydown collar, own value, right · 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 (Waistcoat, grandpapa), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Waistcoat	det
2	Waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 collar	det
5	laydown	laydown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 collar	amod
6	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 modest	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 modest	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 modest	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 modest	advmod
11	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 knows	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 knows	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knows	nsubj
15	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 value	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 value	amod
18	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knows	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 has	cc
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
22	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	24 right	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 right	det
24	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 say	mark
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 right	acl
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 says	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 says	nsubj
29	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 say	ccomp
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Waistcoat	a laydown collar		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient
2	is	present	the Waistcoat not said here		modest property	tree rules
3	know	present	grandpapa	grandpapa's own value		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer value=Stimulus
4	have	present		quite right		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		quite right not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	say speech: assert	present	grandpapa			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
7	value		grandpapa			nom value «cognition transitive»: 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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