Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 20

I have had both sorts in my service, and I shall have many more when he comes--the man who performs the mechanical part--and writes down what he obtains from me.

Who acts: I, pen, man, my · What happens: have, come, perform, write down, obtain, service · To what, where: sorts, service, many more, mechanical part

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pen, man, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	aux
3	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sorts	det
5	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 service	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 service	nmod:poss
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	parataxis
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 more	amod
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 have	obj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 comes	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 comes	nsubj
18	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 more	advcl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comes	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 performs	nsubj
23	performs	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 man	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 part	det
25	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 part	amod
26	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 performs	obj
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 writes	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 writes	cc
29	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 have	parataxis
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 writes	compound:prt
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 obtains	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 obtains	nsubj
33	obtains	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 writes	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 obtains	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	I	both sorts	my service		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient
2	have	shall	I	many more			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
3	come	present	pen				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	perform	present	the man	the mechanical part			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
5	write down	present					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	obtain	present	pen			from me	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from i=Source
7	service		my				nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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