Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 127

The clerk could tell about this too, and it was not a story which he patched together himself.

Who acts: clerk, garden, story · What happens: tell, not be, patch together · To what, where: story, clerk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, garden, story), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	obl
7	too	too	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 story	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 story	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 story	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 story	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 story	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 story	det
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	parataxis
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 patched	nsubj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 patched	nsubj
17	patched	patch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 story	acl:relcl
18	together	together	ADV	_	17 patched	advmod
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 patched	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	the clerk		about this	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about this=Topic
2	not is a	past	garden	a story		tree rules
3	patch together	past	a story	clerk	together property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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