Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 94

But she only said this to frighten Jack the Dullard; and the clerks gave a great crow of delight, and each one spurted a blot out of his pen on to the floor.

Who acts: use, clerks, one · What happens: say, frighten, give, spurt · To what, where: this, Jack, great crow, blot, pen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, clerks, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 said	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 frighten	mark
7	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	advcl
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 frighten	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Dullard	det
10	Dullard	Dullard	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 frighten	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clerks	det
14	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 crow	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crow	amod
18	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 delight	case
20	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crow	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spurted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spurted	cc
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spurted	nsubj
25	spurted	spurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 gave	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 blot	det
27	blot	blot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spurted	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 pen	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 pen	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 pen	nmod:poss
31	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spurted	obl
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 floor	case
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 floor	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 floor	det
35	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spurted	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	use	this			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	frighten	to-infinitive	use not said here	Jack			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus jack=Experiencer dullard=Result
3	give	past	the clerks	a great crow of delight			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme
4	spurt	participle	each one	a blot	Dullard's pen	on the floor	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blot=Theme out pen=Destination

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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