Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 17

So they sing about the "pepper gentleman;" so do they make sport of the poor old bachelor and his nightcap, and all because they really know nothing of either.

Who acts: nightcaps · What happens: sing, make, know · To what, where: sport, nothing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nightcaps), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sing	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sing	nsubj
3	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 gentleman	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gentleman	det
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 gentleman	punct
7	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gentleman	compound
8	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 make	advmod
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 make	aux
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	nsubj
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sing	conj
15	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 bachelor	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bachelor	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bachelor	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bachelor	amod
20	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 nightcap	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 nightcap	nmod:poss
23	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bachelor	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 know	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 know	advmod
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 know	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
29	really	really	ADV	_	30 know	advmod
30	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	conj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 know	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 either	case
33	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	31 nothing	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	nightcaps = nightcap		about the pepper gentleman	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about gentleman=Location
2	make	present · do-support	nightcaps = nightcap	sport	of the poor old bachelor and Denmark's nightcap	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sport=Product
3	know	present	nightcaps = nightcap	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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