Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 30

"'I understand,' he said; 'you would like to have life breathed into your puppets, so that they might be living actors, and you their director.

Who acts: manager, you, puppets · What happens: understand, say, like, have, breathe, be · To what, where: life, puppets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manager, you, puppets), 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 understand	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 understand	nsubj
4	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 like	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 like	xcomp
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
17	breathed	breathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 life	acl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 puppets	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 puppets	nmod:poss
20	puppets	puppet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 breathed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 actors	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	28 actors	case
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 actors	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 actors	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 actors	cop
27	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 actors	amod
28	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 director	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 director	cc
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 director	nsubj
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 director	nmod:poss
33	director	director	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 like	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand in a quote	present	manager				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	manager				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like in a quote	would	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	life			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
5	breathe in a quote	participle		life not said here	your puppets		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	might	puppets = puppet			so living actors	tree rules
7	director in a quote		you				tree rules

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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