Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 18

Every time I fly up in the air, he puts his head out of the nest, and says, 'Will you?' and I have said, 'Yes,' to myself silently, and that is as good as being half engaged; but I will promise never to forget you."

Who acts: I, ball, that · What happens: fly up, put, say, be, engage, promise · To what, where: time, air, head, nest, myself, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ball, that), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 puts	obl:unmarked
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fly	nsubj
4	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 time	acl:relcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 fly	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 puts	nsubj
11	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 puts	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 nest	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 nest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nest	det
17	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 puts	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 says	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 says	cc
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 puts	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Will	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 Will	punct
23	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 says	ccomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 Will	nsubj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 Will	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 Will	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 said	aux
30	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 says	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Yes	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 Yes	punct
33	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	30 said	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Yes	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 Yes	punct
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 myself	case
37	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 said	obl
38	silently	silently	ADV	_	30 said	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 good	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 good	cc
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 good	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 good	cop
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 good	advmod
44	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 said	parataxis
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 engaged	mark
46	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 engaged	aux:pass
47	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	48 engaged	advmod
48	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 good	advcl
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 promise	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 promise	cc
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 promise	nsubj
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 promise	aux
53	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 puts	parataxis
54	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	56 forget	advmod
55	to	to	PART	_	56 forget	mark
56	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 promise	ccomp
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 forget	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 promise	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	present	I	every time not said here		the air			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent time=Theme in air=Location
2	put	present	ball	ball's head		the nest	time		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out nest=Destination
3	say speech: assert	present	ball not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present · perfect	I		myself			silently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Topic to myself=Recipient
5	is	present	that					good property	tree rules
6	engage	gerund · passive	that not said here					half property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»
7	promise speech: promise	future	I						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	not forget not said to happen	to-infinitive		you					tree rules

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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