Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 145

"But they have no red cabbage like we have," said the hen, "I was once in the country with my chickens for a whole summer, there was a large sand-pit, in which we could walk about and scratch as we liked.

Who acts: grapes, we, hen, large sand pit · What happens: have, say, be, walk, scratch, like · To what, where: red cabbage, country, large sand pit · 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 (grapes, we, hen, large sand pit), 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 have	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 have	cc
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 cabbage	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cabbage	amod
7	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 have	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hen	det
15	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 once	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 once	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 once	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 once	cop
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 said	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 country	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 country	det
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 once	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 chickens	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 chickens	nmod:poss
26	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 country	nmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 summer	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 summer	det
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 summer	amod
30	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chickens	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 was	punct
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 was	expl
33	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 once	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 pit	det
35	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pit	amod
36	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pit	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 sand	punct
38	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 was	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 walk	punct
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 walk	obl
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 walk	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 walk	aux
44	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 pit	parataxis
45	about	about	ADV	_	44 walk	advmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 scratch	cc
47	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 walk	conj
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 liked	mark
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 liked	nsubj
50	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 scratch	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	grapes = grape	no red cabbage			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient
2	have in a quote	present	we				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the hen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	past	the hen = hen		the country with my chickens for a whole summer	once property	tree rules
5	be in a quote	past	a large sand pit		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	walk in a quote	could	we		a large sand pit	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Trajectory
7	scratch in a quote	infinitive	we not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	like in a quote	past	we				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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