Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 28

"Now we must fumigate the place with burnt horse-hair and pig's bristles, and then I think I shall have done my part," said the elf man-servant.

Who acts: we, I, elf man servant · What happens: fumigate, think, do, say · To what, where: place, part · 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, I, elf man servant), 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	_	5 fumigate	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fumigate	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 fumigate	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fumigate	aux
5	fumigate	fumigate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fumigate	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 hair	case
9	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hair	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 horse	punct
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fumigate	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bristles	cc
14	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bristles	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 pig	case
16	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hair	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 think	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 think	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
21	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fumigate	conj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 done	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 done	aux
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 think	ccomp
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 part	nmod:poss
27	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 done	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 done	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fumigate	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 servant	det
32	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 servant	compound
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 servant	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 man	punct
35	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fumigate in a quote	must	we	the place	now	with burnt horse hair and pig's bristles	tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	present	I		then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do in a quote	shall · perfect	I	my part			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	the elf man servant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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