Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 13

"But now, if I have been lying the whole winter in the moor," said the swallow, "and suppose I slept the whole time, would that be taken into account?"

Who acts: swallow · What happens: lie, say, suppose, sleep, take · To what, where: moor, that, account · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallow), 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	_	18 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 lying	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 lying	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lying	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 lying	aux
9	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 winter	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 winter	amod
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl:unmarked
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 moor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moor	det
15	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lying	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lying	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 swallow	det
20	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 swallow	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 swallow	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 suppose	cc
24	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 slept	nsubj
26	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 suppose	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slept	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 taken	punct
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 taken	aux
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 taken	nsubj:pass
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 taken	aux:pass
34	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	ccomp
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 account	case
36	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 taken	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 taken	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lie a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	the swallow = swallow		the moor	winter	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in moor=Location
2	say speech: ask	past	the swallow			now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	suppose in a quote	present	the swallow not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	sleep in a quote	past	the swallow = swallow			time	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take in a quote	would · passive		that	account		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into account=Destination

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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