Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 14

"Bring a certificate from the old moor-hen," said he, "that you have slept away half your time in fatherland; then you will be treated with some consideration."

Who acts: swallow · What happens: bring, say, sleep away, treat · To what, where: certificate, that, fatherland, you · 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	_	2 Bring	punct
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 certificate	det
4	certificate	certificate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bring	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	10 hen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hen	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hen	amod
8	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hen	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 moor	punct
10	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 slept	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 slept	punct
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 slept	nsubj:pass
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 slept	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 slept	aux
20	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 slept	advmod
22	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	24 time	det:predet
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 time	nmod:poss
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slept	obl:unmarked
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 fatherland	case
26	fatherland	fatherland	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slept	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 treated	punct
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 treated	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 treated	nsubj:pass
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 treated	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 treated	aux:pass
32	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	parataxis
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 consideration	case
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 consideration	det
35	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 treated	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 treated	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 treated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	infinitive		a certificate			from the old moor hen	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent certificate=Theme from hen=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	swallow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sleep away in a quote	present · perfect · passive		that	fatherland	time	away property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in fatherland=Location
4	treat in a quote	future · passive		you		then	with some consideration	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with consideration=Theme

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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