Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 15

She did not say, as other people do, "Now we shall have spring, the stork is here," or, "They've advertised the first strawberries in the papers."

Who acts: hand, other people, we, stork, people · What happens: not say, do, have, be, advertise · To what, where: first strawberries, papers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, other people, we, stork), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 have	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	parataxis
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 here	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stork	det
19	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 here	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 here	cop
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 have	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 advertised	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 or	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 advertised	punct
27	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 advertised	nsubj
28	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 advertised	aux
29	advertised	advertise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 say	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 strawberries	det
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 strawberries	amod
32	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 advertised	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 papers	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 papers	det
35	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 advertised	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	hand					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	present	other people					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	shall	we			now; spring		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	the stork				here property	tree rules
5	advertise in a quote	present · perfect	people	the first strawberries	the papers			vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot strawberry=Topic

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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