Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 70

"This is really a new year," cried all the sparrows, "now we shall get our rights, and have some return for what we suffered in winter."

Who acts: This, sparrows, we · What happens: be, cry, get, have, suffer · To what, where: new year, rights, return · 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, we), 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	_	7 year	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 year	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 year	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	7 year	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 year	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 sparrows	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sparrows	det
13	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 get	advmod
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 rights	nmod:poss
21	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 get	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 return	det
26	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 what	case
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 return	nmod
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 suffered	nsubj
30	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 what	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 winter	case
32	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 suffered	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This	a new year		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	all sparrows			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get in a quote	shall	we	our rights	now	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus
4	have in a quote	present	all sparrows not said here	some return		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Patient
5	suffer in a quote	past	we		winter	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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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