Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 48

"Would you like to stay here and freeze when the winter comes?" said the mother, "or till the boys comes to hang you, or to roast you?--Well then, I'll call them."

Who acts: you, winter, mother, I · What happens: like, stay, freeze, come, say, hang · To what, where: you, boys · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, winter, mother, I), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stay	mark
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stay	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 freeze	cc
9	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stay	conj
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 comes	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 winter	det
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	nsubj
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 freeze	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mother	det
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 comes	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 boys	cc
22	till	till	ADP	_	24 boys	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boys	det
24	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mother	conj
25	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 hang	mark
27	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 comes	xcomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 hang	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 roast	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 roast	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 roast	mark
32	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 hang	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 roast	obj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 roast	punct
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 call	punct
36	Well	well	INTJ	_	41 call	discourse
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 call	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 then	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 call	nsubj
40	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 call	aux
41	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	parataxis
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 call	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 call	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	like in a quote	would	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	freeze in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	come in a quote	present	the winter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: ask	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come in a quote	present	the mother or the boys				tree rules
7	hang in a quote	to-infinitive	the mother or the boys not said here	you			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
8	roast in a quote	to-infinitive	the mother or the boys not said here	you			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient
9	call in a quote	future	I	boys = boy		then	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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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