Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 18

"But I fancy it began with the General," said the father, "and we must thank them too."

Who acts: father, deal, we · What happens: fancy, begin, say, thank · To what, where: General · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, deal, we), 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	_	4 fancy	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 fancy	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fancy	nsubj
4	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fancy	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 General	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 General	det
9	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fancy	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fancy	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 father	det
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thank	cc
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 thank	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 thank	aux
20	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thank	obj
22	too	too	ADV	_	20 thank	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 thank	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	fancy in a quote	present	the father = father			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	begin in a quote	past	deal		with the General	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with general=Subeventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	the father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	thank speech: thank in a quote	must	we	General		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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