Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 17

"I," said the second, "intend to fly straight to the sun, that is a shell that lets itself be seen, and it will suit me exactly;" and away he went.

Who acts: I, that, shell, boy · What happens: say, intend, fly, be, let, see · To what, where: second, shell, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, shell, boy), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 I	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 I	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 second	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 intend	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 intend	punct
10	intend	intend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fly	mark
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 intend	xcomp
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	16 sun	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 sun	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fly	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shell	punct
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 shell	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 shell	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shell	det
21	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 intend	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lets	nsubj
23	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 shell	acl:relcl
24	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 lets	obj
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 seen	aux:pass
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 lets	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 suit	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 suit	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 suit	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 suit	aux
31	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 intend	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 suit	obj
33	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	31 suit	advmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
37	away	away	ADV	_	39 went	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 went	nsubj
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I	the second		tree rules
2	intend in a quote	infinitive				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive			to the sun result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sun=Result
4	is a in a quote	present	that	a shell		tree rules
5	let in a quote	present	a shell	shell		tree rules
6	see in a quote	infinitive · passive	shell not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
7	suit in a quote	future	shell	me	exactly property	tree rules
8	go	past	boy		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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