Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 14

Even if he ate me up stump, stalk, and all, and I had to dissolve in his body, it would be a happy death," said the cucumber.

Who acts: yard, I, stump · What happens: eat up, stalk, have, dissolve, be, say · To what, where: me, body, happy death, cucumber · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yard, I, stump), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 ate	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	advcl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 ate	compound:prt
7	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stalk	punct
9	stalk	stalk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ate	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 all	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 all	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ate	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 dissolve	mark
18	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 body	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 body	nmod:poss
21	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dissolve	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 death	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 death	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 death	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 death	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 death	det
27	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 death	amod
28	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cucumber	det
33	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat up a condition, not said to happen	past	yard	me		tree rules
2	stalk	infinitive	yard not said here			vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	I			tree rules
4	dissolve	to-infinitive	I not said here		yard's body	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	would	stump	a happy death		tree rules
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the cucumber		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cucumber=Topic

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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