Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 3

"Yes, they're rare old fellows, those boulders!" he said; "and to think that we should pass them without noticing them!

Who acts: books, he, we · What happens: be, say, think, pass, notice · To what, where: rare old fellows, books · 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 (books, he, 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	_	8 fellows	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 fellows	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fellows	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fellows	cop
6	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellows	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellows	amod
8	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boulders	punct
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 boulders	det
11	boulders	boulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fellows	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 fellows	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fellows	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 think	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 think	mark
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 pass	mark
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 pass	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 pass	aux
24	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 think	ccomp
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pass	obj
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	27 noticing	mark
27	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 pass	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 noticing	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	books = book	rare old fellows and that boulders	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	pass in a quote	should	we	books = book	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
5	notice in a quote	gerund	we not said here	books = book	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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