Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 160

"This is all very fine, no doubt," said the sparrows, "and it is very beautiful; but it is not according to the calendar, therefore, it must be all wrong."

Who acts: This, sparrows, story · What happens: be, say, not accord · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, sparrows, story), 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 fine	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 fine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 fine	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 fine	advmod
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doubt	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 doubt	det
9	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fine	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fine	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fine	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sparrows	det
14	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sparrows	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sparrows	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beautiful	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 beautiful	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 beautiful	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 beautiful	advmod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 according	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 according	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 according	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 according	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 according	advmod
27	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 calendar	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	27 according	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 calendar	det
30	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wrong	punct
32	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	38 wrong	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wrong	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wrong	nsubj
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 wrong	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 wrong	cop
37	all	all	ADV	_	38 wrong	advmod
38	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 calendar	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 calendar	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 calendar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	This	no doubt obl; all, fine property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the sparrows	accord the calendar	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	story	beautiful property	tree rules
4	not accord in a quote	present · progressive	story		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	must	story	all, therefore, wrong property	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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