Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 2

"What a buzzing and a rumbling there is in the elfin hill," said one of the lizards; "I have not been able to close my eyes for two nights on account of the noise; I might just as well have had the toothache, for that always keeps me awake."

Who acts: buzzing, I · What happens: be, say, not be, close, have, keep · To what, where: one, eyes, account, toothache, me, noise · 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 (buzzing, I), 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	_	16 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 is	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 buzzing	det
4	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rumbling	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rumbling	det
7	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buzzing	conj
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 hill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
12	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hill	compound
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 said	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 lizards	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lizards	det
20	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 able	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 able	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 able	advmod
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 able	cop
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 close	mark
29	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 close	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 nights	case
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 nights	nummod
34	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 close	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 account	case
36	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 close	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 noise	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 noise	det
39	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 account	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 had	nsubj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 had	aux
43	just	just	ADV	_	47 had	advmod
44	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	47 had	cc
45	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 as	fixed
46	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 had	aux
47	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 said	parataxis
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 toothache	det
49	toothache	toothache	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 had	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 keeps	punct
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 that	case
52	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 keeps	obl
53	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	54 keeps	advmod
54	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 had	conj
55	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 keeps	obj
56	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 keeps	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	a buzzing and a rumbling		there		in the elfin hill	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in hill=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past		one of the lizards				tree rules
3	not is in a quote	present · perfect	I				able property	tree rules
4	close in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	my eyes	account of the noise	night		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
5	have in a quote	might · perfect	I	the toothache				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothache=Patient
6	keep in a quote	present	I not said here	me			for that; always, awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	account in a quote			the noise				nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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