Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 29

He told it me himself, and he hadn't "a rogue on his back," as mother used to tell me he had when he wanted to make me believe something outrageous, for now he looked quite trustworthy.

Who acts: grandpapa, me · What happens: tell, not have, use, have, want, make · To what, where: grandpapa, me, rogue, back, mother, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandpapa, me), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	obj
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 told	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 had	advmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rogue	det
13	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 back	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 back	nmod:poss
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rogue	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mother	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 mother	punct
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 mother	case
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	parataxis
21	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 mother	acl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 tell	mark
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 used	advcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	ccomp
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 wanted	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wanted	nsubj
29	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 had	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 make	mark
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wanted	xcomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 make	obj
33	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 make	xcomp
34	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 believe	obj
35	outrageous	outrageous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 something	amod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 looked	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 looked	mark
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 looked	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 looked	nsubj
40	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 believe	parataxis
41	quite	quite	ADV	_	42 trustworthy	advmod
42	trustworthy	trustworthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 looked	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	grandpapa	grandpapa	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Topic
2	not have	past	grandpapa	a rogue		grandpapa's back			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rogue=Patient
3	use	participle		mother not said here					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	have	past	grandpapa						tree rules
6	want	past	grandpapa						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	grandpapa not said here	me					tree rules
8	believe not said to happen	infinitive	me not said here	something					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
9	look	past	grandpapa				now	trustworthy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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