Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 4

"Yes, certainly," said the inkstand to the pen, and to the other articles that stood on the table; "that's what I always say.

Who acts: inkstand, other articles, that · What happens: say, stand, be · To what, where: other articles, table · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (inkstand, other articles, that), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 certainly	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 certainly	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 inkstand	det
9	inkstand	inkstand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 pen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pen	det
12	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inkstand	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 articles	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 articles	cc
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 articles	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 articles	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 articles	amod
18	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 articles	acl:relcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 table	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 table	det
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 what	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 what	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 what	cop
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	parataxis
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 say	nsubj
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 say	advmod
31	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 what	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the inkstand	the other articles		certainly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to article=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stand	past	the other articles		the table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location
3	is a in a quote	present	that				tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the inkstand = inkstand			always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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