Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 50

"And therefore," said the eel-breeder in conclusion, "it is always the proper thing to drink brandy after eating eels."

Who acts: eel breeder, brandy · What happens: say, be, drink, eat · To what, where: proper thing, brandy, eels · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eel breeder, brandy), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 therefore	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 therefore	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 breeder	det
8	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 breeder	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 eel	punct
10	breeder	breeder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 conclusion	case
12	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 breeder	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thing	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 thing	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thing	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 thing	cop
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 thing	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thing	det
19	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 drink	mark
22	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 thing	acl
23	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drink	obj
24	after	after	SCONJ	_	25 eating	mark
25	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 drink	advcl
26	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eating	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the eel breeder		therefore property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	brandy	the proper thing	always property	tree rules
3	drink in a quote	to-infinitive	the eel breeder not said here	brandy		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brandy=Patient
4	eat in a quote	gerund	the eel breeder not said here	eels		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eel=Patient

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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