Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 17

All sorts of people are afraid of him, my mamma says, for he can do as he likes with the paper."

Who acts: sorts, mamma, papa · What happens: be, say, do, like, sort · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorts, mamma, papa), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sorts	det
2	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 afraid	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sorts	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mamma	nmod:poss
11	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 do	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	ccomp
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 likes	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 likes	nsubj
20	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 do	advcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 paper	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 paper	det
23	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 likes	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	all sorts of people		of papa; afraid property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	my mamma			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	can	papa			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	like	present	papa		with the paper	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	sort			people		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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