Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 43

How often she has said, 'If now we only had a goose!'

Who acts: woman, we · What happens: say, have · To what, where: goose · 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 (woman, we), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 often	advmod
2	often	often	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
8	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 had	advmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 had	advmod
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 goose	det
14	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · perfect	woman					often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	we	a goose			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Patient

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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