Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 100

I shall have to fetch beer and spirits for the journeymen, and they will call me 'thou,' which will be an insult.

Who acts: I, beer · What happens: have, fetch, call, be · To what, where: beer, me, insult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, beer), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fetch	mark
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fetch	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spirits	cc
8	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beer	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 journeymen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 journeymen	det
11	journeymen	journeyman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fetch	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 call	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 call	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 call	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 call	aux
16	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 call	obj
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 call	punct
19	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 call	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 insult	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 insult	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 insult	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 insult	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 insult	cop
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 insult	det
26	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	shall	I			tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive	I not said here	beer and spirits	for the journeymen	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent beer=Theme for journeyman=Source
3	call	future	beer	me		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme thou=Result
4	is a	future		a insult		tree rules

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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