Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 106

But the youngsters said they would rather make a speech and drink to their good fellowship; they had no wish to marry.

Who acts: youngsters · What happens: say, make, have, marry · To what, where: speech, wish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngsters), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youngsters	det
3	youngsters	youngster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 make	advmod
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 speech	det
10	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 drink	cc
12	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 speech	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 fellowship	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fellowship	nmod:poss
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fellowship	amod
16	fellowship	fellowship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 wish	det
21	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 marry	mark
23	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wish	acl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the youngsters			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	would	youngsters = youngster	a speech and drink	to youngsters's good fellowship	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
3	have	past	youngsters = youngster	no wish		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
4	marry	to-infinitive	youngsters = youngster not said here	no wish not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «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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