Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 90

There were eels of the fattest, requiring brandy to bury them, as the eel-breeder said; and certainly they did not forget to carry out his maxim here.

Who acts: eels, eel breeder · What happens: be, require, bury, say, not forget, carry out · To what, where: eels, maxim · 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 (eels, eel breeder), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 brandy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brandy	det
6	fattest	fat	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 requiring	compound
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 requiring	punct
8	requiring	require	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 brandy	amod
9	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eels	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 bury	mark
11	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 brandy	acl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bury	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 said	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 breeder	det
16	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breeder	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 eel	punct
18	breeder	breeder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bury	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 forget	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 forget	cc
22	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	26 forget	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 forget	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 forget	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 forget	advmod
26	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 were	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 carry	mark
28	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 forget	xcomp
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 carry	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 maxim	nmod:poss
31	maxim	maxim	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carry	obj
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 carry	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	eels of the requiring brandy		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	require	gerund					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	bury	to-infinitive	eels of the requiring brandy not said here	eels = eel			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the eel breeder				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not forget	past · do-support	eels = eel			certainly property	tree rules
6	carry out	to-infinitive	eels = eel not said here	breeder's maxim	here		vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maxim=Eventuality

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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