Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 128

He had the whole strange history out of an old authentic book, which we ourselves can take out and read.

Who acts: clerk, we · What happens: have, take out, read · To what, where: whole strange history, old authentic book

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 history	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 history	amod
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 history	amod
6	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	12 book	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 book	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 book	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 book	amod
11	authentic	authentic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 book	amod
12	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 take	obj
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
16	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 we	nmod
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 book	parataxis
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 take	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 read	cc
21	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	clerk	the whole strange history	a old authentic book	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient
2	take out	can	we	a old authentic book		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3	read	infinitive	we not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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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