Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 122

"It is incredible how many old people there are who would be glad to have me at night," said Ole-Luk-Oie, "especially those who have done something wrong. '

Who acts: incredible many old people, Ole · What happens: be, have, say, do · To what, where: Ole, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incredible many old people, Ole), 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 incredible	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 incredible	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 incredible	cop
4	incredible	incredible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 are	nsubj
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 glad	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 glad	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 glad	cop
14	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 are	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 have	mark
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 glad	xcomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 are	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Luk	punct
25	Luk	Luk	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Ole	conj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Oie	punct
27	Oie	Oie	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Ole	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 those	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 those	punct
30	especially	especially	ADV	_	31 those	advmod
31	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 said	nsubj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 done	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 done	aux
34	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 those	acl:relcl
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 done	obj
36	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 something	amod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present					incredible property	tree rules
2	does in a quote	present	incredible many old people		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	would					glad property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	to-infinitive		Ole and Luk and Oie = ole		night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	Ole and Luk and Oie					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do in a quote	present · perfect		something				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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