Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 22

Oh, if I could be one of them," thought he, and then he heard what was said about names, which was quite enough to make him more unhappy.

Who acts: I, boy, names · What happens: be, think, hear, say, make · To what, where: one, boy · 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 (I, boy, names), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 one	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 one	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 one	cop
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 thought	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heard	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 heard	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 said	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	aux:pass
21	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 heard	ccomp
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 names	case
23	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 enough	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 enough	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 enough	cop
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 enough	advmod
28	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 names	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 enough	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 make	obj
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 unhappy	advmod
33	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 make	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	could	I	one		of children = child	tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	past		boy			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	hear in a quote	past	boy		then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past · passive				about names	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	is in a quote	past	names			enough property	tree rules
6	make in a quote	to-infinitive	names not said here	boy		unhappy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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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