Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 24

"That may be all very well," said another sparrow, who had been hopping about for a long time, chirping, but not saying anything of consequence, "but I have found a few comforts here in town which, I'm afraid, I should miss out in the country.

Who acts: sparrow, town · What happens: be, say, hop about, chirp, not say, find · To what, where: anything, few comforts, town, country · 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 (sparrow, town), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 said	ccomp
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 well	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 well	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 sparrow	det
12	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hopping	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hopping	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hopping	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 hopping	aux
17	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sparrow	conj
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 hopping	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 time	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hopping	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 chirping	punct
24	chirping	chirp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 hopping	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saying	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 saying	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 saying	advmod
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
29	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 saying	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 consequence	case
31	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 anything	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 found	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 found	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 found	aux
37	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 comforts	det
39	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 comforts	amod
40	comforts	comfort	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 found	obj
41	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 found	advmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 town	case
43	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 found	obl
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 afraid	nsubj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 which	punct
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 afraid	nsubj
47	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 afraid	cop
48	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 town	acl:relcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 miss	punct
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 miss	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 miss	aux
52	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 afraid	ccomp
53	out	out	ADP	_	52 miss	compound:prt
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 country	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 country	det
56	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 miss	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	may					all, well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	another sparrow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hop about	past · perfect · progressive	another sparrow			time	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	chirp	gerund	another sparrow not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not say speech: assert	gerund	another sparrow not said here	anything				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
6	find in a quote	present · perfect	another sparrow = sparrow	a few comforts	town; here			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Topic
7	is in a quote	present	town				afraid property	tree rules
8	miss out in a quote	should	another sparrow = sparrow		the country			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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