Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 71

But I make them shorter, for the youngsters don't like long speeches; and if they have anything mournful, they like it to be over quickly."

Who acts: I, youngsters · What happens: make, not like, have, like, be · To what, where: Plays, long speeches, anything, mamma

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 (I, youngsters), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 make	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 like	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youngsters	det
9	youngsters	youngster	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 like	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 like	advmod
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	conj
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 speeches	amod
14	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 like	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 like	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 have	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 like	advcl
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 have	obj
21	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 anything	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
24	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 like	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 over	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 over	cop
28	over	over	ADV	_	24 like	advmod
29	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	28 over	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	I	Plays = play	short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
2	not like	present · do-support	the youngsters	long speeches		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot speech=Theme
3	have a condition, not said to happen	present	youngsters = youngster	anything		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
4	like	present	youngsters = youngster	mamma		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive			over, quickly property	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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