Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 14

We are going to have some very grand people, conjurors, who have always something to say; and therefore the old elf king wishes to make a great display."

Who acts: We, grand people, old elf king · What happens: go, have, say, wish, make · To what, where: grand people, something, great display · 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 (We, grand people, old elf king), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 people	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 grand	advmod
8	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 conjurors	punct
11	conjurors	conjuror	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 people	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 people	acl:relcl
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 something	advmod
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 have	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 something	acl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 wishes	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wishes	cc
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	26 wishes	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 king	amod
24	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 king	compound
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wishes	nsubj
26	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wishes	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 display	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 display	amod
31	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	We			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	to-infinitive	We not said here	some grand people and conjurors		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
3	have	present	some grand people and conjurors	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	some grand people and conjurors not said here	something not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	wish	present	the old elf king		therefore property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		a great display		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset display=Product

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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