Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 34

"I should like to have that fellow," said the peasant to himself. "

Who acts: peasant · What happens: like, have, say · To what, where: fellow, peasant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 fellow	det
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 peasant	det
13	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 said	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	like in a quote	should	the peasant = peasant			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the peasant = peasant not said here	that fellow		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the peasant		peasant	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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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