Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 105

Then both the crows bowed, and begged to have a fixed appointment, for they thought of their old age, and said it would be so comfortable to feel that they had provision for their old days, as they called it.

Who acts: crows, dreams, appointment · What happens: bow, beg, have, fix, think, say · To what, where: fixed appointment, provision · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crows, dreams, appointment), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 bowed	advmod
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 crows	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crows	det
4	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bowed	nsubj
5	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 begged	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 begged	cc
8	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bowed	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 begged	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 appointment	det
12	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 appointment	amod
13	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 thought	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 have	advcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 age	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 age	nmod:poss
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 age	amod
21	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bowed	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 comfortable	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 comfortable	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 comfortable	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 comfortable	advmod
29	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 feel	mark
31	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 comfortable	advcl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 had	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 feel	ccomp
35	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 days	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 days	nmod:poss
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 days	amod
39	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 had	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 called	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 called	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 called	nsubj
43	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 feel	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 called	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	both crows		then		tree rules
2	beg speech: request	participle	both crows not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	both crows not said here	a fixed appointment			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appointment=Patient
4	fix	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	think speech: other	past	dreams = dream		of dreams's old age		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	both crows not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	would	appointment			comfortable property	tree rules
8	feel	to-infinitive	appointment not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	have	past	dreams = dream	provision	day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Patient
10	call	past	dreams = dream	provision			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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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