Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 53

He shall be my summer gauk," she said; and she took the delicate Flower and laid it in a piece of scented paper, on which verses were written, beginning with summer gauk and ending with summer gauk. "

Who acts: friend, gauk · What happens: be, say, take, lay, scent, write · To what, where: summer gauk, delicate Flower, examination, piece, verses · 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 (friend, gauk), 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	6 gauk	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 gauk	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 gauk	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gauk	nmod:poss
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gauk	compound
6	gauk	gauk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gauk	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 gauk	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Flower	det
16	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Flower	amod
17	Flower	Flower	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 laid	cc
19	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laid	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 piece	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 piece	det
23	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laid	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 paper	case
25	scented	scent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 paper	amod
26	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 piece	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 written	punct
28	on	on	SCONJ	_	32 written	mark
29	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	30 verses	det
30	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 written	nsubj:pass
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 written	aux:pass
32	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 laid	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 beginning	punct
34	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 written	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 gauk	case
36	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gauk	compound
37	gauk	gauk	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 beginning	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 ending	cc
39	ending	end	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 beginning	conj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 gauk	case
41	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 gauk	compound
42	gauk	gauk	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ending	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	shall	friend	my summer gauk				tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	gauk					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	past	gauk		the delicate Flower			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument flower=Destination
4	lay in a quote	past	gauk not said here	examination		a piece of scented paper		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in piece=Destination
5	scent in a quote	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
6	write in a quote	past · passive		which verses				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	begin in a quote	gerund					with summer gauk	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with gauk=Subeventuality
8	end in a quote	gerund					with summer gauk	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with gauk=Subeventuality

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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