Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 5

I have heard many respectable people say so, and I can quite understand it.

Who acts: I, many respectable people · What happens: hear, say, understand · To what, where: insult · 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 (I, many respectable people), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
5	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	parataxis
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 understand	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 understand	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 understand	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 understand	aux
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 understand	advmod
14	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 understand	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	I		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	many respectable people		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	understand	can	I	insult	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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