Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 91

The old fisherman said it was foolish to go away, for now that Jurgen had a home Else would very likely be inclined to take him instead of Martin.

Who acts: old fisherman, it, Jurgen · What happens: say, be, go away, have, incline, take · To what, where: home, Jurgen · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old fisherman, it, Jurgen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fisherman	amod
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 foolish	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 foolish	cop
7	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 foolish	xcomp
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 now	case
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 had	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 home	det
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 inclined	obl
19	Else	else	ADV	_	18 home	advmod
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 inclined	aux
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 likely	advmod
22	likely	likely	ADV	_	24 inclined	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 inclined	aux:pass
24	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 had	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 inclined	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	obj
28	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	30 Martin	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 instead	fixed
30	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 take	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old fisherman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it			foolish property	tree rules
3	go away	to-infinitive				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	Jurgen				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	incline	would · passive		a home		likely property	tree rules
6	take	to-infinitive			Jurgen	instead Martin	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=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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