Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 26

As I told you, I see that every New Year's night, and could mention the majority of the riders by name, but I should not like to draw their enmity upon myself, for they don't like people to talk about their ride to Amack on quill pens.

Who acts: I, pens · What happens: tell, see, mention, not like, draw, talk · To what, where: you, majority, enmity, people, quill pens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pens), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 told	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 night	mark
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Year	det
10	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Year	compound
11	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 night	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Year	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mention	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mention	cc
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 mention	aux
17	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 see	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 majority	det
19	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mention	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 riders	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 riders	det
22	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 majority	nmod
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 name	case
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mention	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 like	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 like	advmod
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 see	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 draw	mark
32	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 like	xcomp
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 enmity	nmod:poss
34	enmity	enmity	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 draw	obj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 myself	case
36	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 draw	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 like	punct
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 like	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 like	nsubj
40	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 like	aux
41	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 like	advmod
42	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 draw	conj
43	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 like	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 talk	mark
45	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 like	xcomp
46	about	about	ADP	_	48 ride	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 ride	nmod:poss
48	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 talk	obl
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 Amack	case
50	Amack	Amack	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 ride	nmod
51	on	on	ADP	_	53 pens	case
52	quill	quill	NOUN	_	53 pens	compound
53	pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 talk	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	mention speech: other	could	I not said here	the majority of the riders			by name	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent majority=Topic
4	not like	should	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	draw not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	riders's enmity			upon myself	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enmity=Theme
6	not like	present · do-support	pens = pen	people				tree rules
7	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	pens = pen not said here			quill pens	about pens's ride to Amack	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about ride=Topic
8	ride		pens = pen				to Amack	nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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