Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 61

He's only a plaything, and if people will have playthings, why let them, I say."

Who acts: bird, people, I · What happens: be, have, let, say · To what, where: plaything, playthings, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, people, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plaything	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plaything	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 plaything	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plaything	det
5	plaything	plaything	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 have	mark
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plaything	parataxis
12	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 plaything	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 say	nsubj
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 let	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	bird	a plaything	tree rules
2	have a condition, not said to happen	future	people	playthings	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plaything=Patient
3	let	infinitive		people	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	I		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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