Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 70

If they cement his back, and put a good rivet in it, he will be as good as new, and be able to say as many disagreeable things to us as ever."

Who acts: heads, grandfather · What happens: cement, put, be, say · To what, where: back, good rivet, rivet, many disagreeable things, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, grandfather), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 cement	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cement	nsubj
3	cement	cement	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 good	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cement	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cement	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rivet	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rivet	amod
11	rivet	rivet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cement	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 good	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 good	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 good	cop
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 good	advmod
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 new	case
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 good	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 able	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 able	cc
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	cop
25	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 good	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 say	mark
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	xcomp
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 many	advmod
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
30	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 say	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 us	case
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 say	obl
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 ever	advmod
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 say	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cement a condition, not said to happen	present	heads = head	grandfather's back					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient
2	put	infinitive	heads = head not said here	a good rivet		rivet			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rivet=Theme in it=Destination
3	is	future	grandfather					as new; good property	tree rules
4	is	infinitive	grandfather not said here					able property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	grandfather not said here	many disagreeable things	us		ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to we=Recipient

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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