Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 45

The dancing lady said the house could not be supported unless she stood on one leg; for she was a great genius, and begged to be treated as such.

Who acts: dancing lady, lady · What happens: say, not support, stand, be, beg, treat · To what, where: house, one leg · 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 (dancing lady, lady), 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	3 lady	det
2	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lady	compound
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 supported	nsubj:pass
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 supported	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 supported	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 supported	aux:pass
10	supported	support	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp
11	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	13 stood	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 supported	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 leg	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 leg	nummod
16	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 genius	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	23 genius	case
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 genius	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 genius	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 genius	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 genius	amod
23	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 begged	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 begged	cc
26	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 treated	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 treated	aux:pass
29	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 begged	xcomp
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 such	case
31	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 treated	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dancing lady				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not support	could · passive		the house			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	stand a condition, not said to happen	past	lady		one leg		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
4	is	past	lady			for a great genius	tree rules
5	beg speech: request	past	the dancing lady not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	treat not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the dancing lady not said here			as such	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: as such=Attribute

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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