Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 74

And he said, did Flabs, that the whole was written down, and it should be printed when he was dead and buried, but not before, for he would not risk having his arms and legs broken.

Who acts: Mr., arms · What happens: say, do, write down, print, be, bury · To what, where: Flabs, whole, soil, arms · 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 (Mr., arms), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	Flabs	flab	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 written	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 written	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 whole	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 written	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 written	aux:pass
12	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 did	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 written	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 printed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 printed	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 printed	nsubj:pass
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 printed	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 printed	aux:pass
19	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	parataxis
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 dead	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dead	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dead	cop
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 printed	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 buried	cc
25	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 dead	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 before	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 before	cc
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 before	advmod
29	before	before	ADV	_	19 printed	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 risk	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 risk	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 risk	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 risk	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 risk	advmod
35	risk	risk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 printed	conj
36	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 risk	xcomp
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 arms	nmod:poss
38	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 having	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 legs	cc
40	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 arms	conj
41	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 having	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mr.			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past		Flabs		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flab=Eventuality
3	write down	past · passive		the whole		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	print	should · passive		soil	before property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	past	Mr.		dead property	tree rules
6	bury	participle	Mr. not said here			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	not risk	would	Mr.			vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	have	gerund	Mr. not said here	Mr.'s arms and legs		tree rules
9	break	participle	Mr.'s arms and legs not said here			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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