Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 185

Now," said he, "you must tell me some stories about five green peas that lived in one pod; or of the chickseed that courted the chickweed; or of the darning needle, who acted so proudly because she fancied herself an embroidery needle."

Who acts: Hjalmar, you, five green peas, chickseed, portrait · What happens: say, tell, live, court, act, fancy · To what, where: stories, five green peas, one pod, chickweed, portrait · 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 (Hjalmar, you, five green peas, chickseed), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 stories	det
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tell	obj
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 five	advmod
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 peas	nummod
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 peas	amod
17	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tell	iobj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lived	nsubj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 peas	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 pod	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 pod	nummod
22	pod	pod	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 chickseed	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 chickseed	cc
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 chickseed	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chickseed	det
27	chickseed	chickseed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	parataxis
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 courted	nsubj
29	courted	court	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 chickseed	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chickweed	det
31	chickweed	chickweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 courted	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 acted	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 acted	cc
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 needle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 needle	det
36	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 needle	compound
37	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 acted	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 acted	punct
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 acted	nsubj
40	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 proudly	advmod
42	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	40 acted	advmod
43	because	because	SCONJ	_	45 fancied	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 fancied	nsubj
45	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 acted	advcl
46	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 fancied	obj
47	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 needle	det
48	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 needle	compound
49	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fancied	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 acted	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 acted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Hjalmar				now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	must	you	some stories	five green peas				tree rules
3	live	past	five green peas			one pod			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pod=Location
4	court	past	the chickseed	the chickweed					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chickweed=Co-Agent
5	act	past						of the darning needle; proudly property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fancy	past	portrait	portrait					tree rules

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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