Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 150

There are no delicacies here," he said; so he wished to go out into the world to find something delicate to suit his taste. "

Who acts: delicacies, other two, something · What happens: be, say, wish, go out, find, suit · To what, where: world, something, taste · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delicacies, other two, something), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 delicacies	det
4	delicacies	delicacy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 are	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 wished	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 wished	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wished	nsubj
13	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wished	xcomp
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	advcl
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 find	obj
23	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 something	amod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 suit	mark
25	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 delicate	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 taste	nmod:poss
27	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suit	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	no delicacies		here; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	other two = two				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wish in a quote	past	other two = two				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go out not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	other two = two not said here		the world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find in a quote	to-infinitive	other two = two not said here	something			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
6	suit in a quote	to-infinitive	something not said here	other two's taste			tree rules
7	taste in a quote		other two = two				nom taste «cognition 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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