Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 59

The tailors had a flag with a pair of scissors supported by two lions, and on the shoemakers' flag there were not boots, but an eagle with two heads, for the shoemakers must have everything arranged so that they can say, "This is a pair."

Who acts: tailors, eagle, This · What happens: have, support, arrange, say, be · To what, where: flag, scissors, everything, pair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailors, eagle, This), 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 tailors	det
2	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flag	det
5	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 pair	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pair	det
8	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flag	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 scissors	case
10	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pair	nmod
11	supported	support	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 scissors	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 lions	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 lions	nummod
14	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 supported	obl:agent
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flag	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flag	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 flag	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shoemakers	det
19	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flag	nmod:poss
20	'	's	PART	_	19 shoemakers	case
21	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	parataxis
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 were	expl
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 flag	acl:relcl
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 boots	advmod
25	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 were	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 have	cc
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 eagle	det
29	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	nsubj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 heads	case
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 heads	nummod
32	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 eagle	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 shoemakers	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 shoemakers	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shoemakers	det
36	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 eagle	conj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 have	aux
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 boots	parataxis
39	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	38 have	obj
40	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 everything	acl
41	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	45 say	mark
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 so	fixed
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 say	nsubj
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 say	aux
45	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 arranged	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 pair	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 pair	punct
48	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 pair	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 pair	cop
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 pair	det
51	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 flag	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the tailors	a flag	with a pair of scissors	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient
2	support	participle		scissors not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	must	a eagle with two heads and the shoemakers	everything		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
4	arrange	participle				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	can	eagle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	This	a pair		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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