Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 147

"But one cabbage stalk is exactly like another," said the swallow; "and here we have often bad weather."

Who acts: one cabbage stalk, another, we · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: swallow, bad weather · 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 (one cabbage stalk, another, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 stalk	nummod
4	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stalk	compound
5	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 another	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 another	cop
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 another	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 another	case
9	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	12 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 another	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 another	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swallow	det
14	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 have	advmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 bad	advmod
22	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 weather	amod
23	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	one cabbage stalk			like another; exactly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	another	the swallow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swallow=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	we	bad weather	here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=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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