Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 6

"It's moving-day to day," he said; "streets and houses are like a dust-bin--a large dust-bin; but I'm content with a cartload.

Who acts: bit, Ole, streets · What happens: move, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bit, Ole, streets), 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	_	4 moving	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moving	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 moving	aux
4	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moving	obl:unmarked
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moving	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 moving	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bin	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 streets	punct
15	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bin	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 houses	cc
17	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 streets	conj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 bin	cop
19	like	like	ADP	_	23 bin	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bin	det
21	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bin	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 dust	punct
23	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 bin	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bin	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bin	amod
27	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bin	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 dust	punct
29	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bin	appos
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 content	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 content	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 content	nsubj
33	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 content	cop
34	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 cartload	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 cartload	det
37	cartload	cartload	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 content	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	move in a quote	present · progressive	bit	day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Ole			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	streets and houses		like a dust bin	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	Ole		with a cartload; content property	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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