Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 56

He began to boast and to say that he had obtained a house and intended to marry, and when Niels asked him where he was going to get the money, he slapped his pocket proudly and said:

Who acts: Martin, Niels · What happens: begin, boast, say, obtain, intend, marry · To what, where: house, Martin, money, pocket · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, Niels), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 boast	mark
4	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 boast	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 obtained	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 obtained	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 obtained	aux
11	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 say	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 obtained	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 intended	cc
15	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 obtained	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 marry	mark
17	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 intended	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 slapped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 slapped	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 asked	advmod
21	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 asked	nsubj
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 slapped	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asked	iobj
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 going	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 asked	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 going	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 money	det
31	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asked	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 slapped	nsubj
34	slapped	slap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 pocket	nmod:poss
36	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slapped	obj
37	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	34 slapped	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Martin				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	boast speech: other	to-infinitive	Martin not said here				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Martin not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	obtain	past · perfect	Martin	a house			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
5	intend	participle	Martin not said here				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Martin not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	ask speech: ask	past	Niels		Martin		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	go	past · progressive	Martin				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	get	to-infinitive	Martin not said here	the money			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus
10	slap	past	Martin	Martin's pocket		proudly property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient
11	say speech: assert	past	Martin not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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