Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 97

"Oh, they will make capital brooms," said he; "and I like them because I have strange whims sometimes."

Who acts: rods, ointment, John · What happens: make, say, like, have · To what, where: capital brooms, rods, strange whims · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rods, ointment, John), 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	_	6 make	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 make	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brooms	compound
8	brooms	broom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 like	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
17	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 like	obj
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 have	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 like	advcl
22	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 whims	amod
23	whims	whim	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	obj
24	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 have	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	future	rods = rod	capital brooms		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset broom=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	ointment			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	like in a quote	present	John of John's fellow traveller = john	rods = rod		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
4	have in a quote	present	John of John's fellow traveller = john	strange whims	sometimes property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whim=Patient

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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