Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 9

"It's a pity that his parents are dead and cannot read it," said the new porter people, who now lived in the cellar under the General's apartments.

Who acts: announcement, parents, new porter people · What happens: be, not read, say, live · To what, where: pity, announcement, cellar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (announcement, parents, new porter people), 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	_	5 pity	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pity	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pity	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pity	det
5	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 dead	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dead	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pity	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 read	cc
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 read	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 read	advmod
14	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dead	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 read	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pity	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 pity	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
21	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 people	compound
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lived	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lived	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lived	nsubj
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 lived	advmod
26	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 cellar	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cellar	det
29	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	obl
30	under	under	ADP	_	34 apartments	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 General	det
32	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 apartments	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 General	case
34	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lived	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	announcement	a pity				tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	pity's parents				dead property	tree rules
3	not read in a quote	can	pity's parents not said here	announcement				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	live	past	the new porter people		the cellar	now	under the General's apartments	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cellar=Location

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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