Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 36

It was very amusing!' my niece said; in fact, she said many things that were very malicious but very amusing, but I won't mention them, for a man must be good-natured, and not a carping critic.

Who acts: stick, niece, acquaintance, many things, I, man · What happens: be, say, not mention, carp · To what, where: many things, fact, niece · 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 (stick, niece, acquaintance, many things), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 amusing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amusing	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 amusing	advmod
4	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 amusing	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 amusing	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 niece	nmod:poss
8	niece	niece	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amusing	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 fact	case
12	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fact	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 things	amod
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 malicious	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 malicious	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 malicious	advmod
21	malicious	malicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 things	acl:relcl
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 amusing	cc
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 amusing	advmod
24	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 malicious	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mention	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 mention	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 mention	nsubj
28	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 mention	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 mention	advmod
30	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 mention	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 natured	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 natured	mark
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 natured	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 natured	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 natured	cop
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 natured	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 good	punct
40	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mention	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 critic	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 critic	cc
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 critic	advmod
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 critic	det
45	carping	carp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 critic	amod
46	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 natured	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 amusing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	stick			amusing property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	my niece				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	acquaintance	many things	fact		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in fact=Manner
4	is	past	many things			malicious property	tree rules
5	be		many things not said here				tree rules
6	not mention speech: other	future	I	niece			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic
7	is	must	a man			natured property	tree rules
8	carp	gerund					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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