Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 12

"And I," said the elder one, "would rather have both my arms broken off."

Who acts: I · What happens: say, have, break off · To what, where: elder one, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	3 I	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 I	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
13	rather	rather	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	17 arms	det:predet
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arms	nmod:poss
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
18	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 arms	acl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 broken	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I	the elder one	tree rules
2	have in a quote	would		my arms	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
3	break off in a quote	participle		my arms not said here	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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