Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 35

They say he took his wife from chalk; I shall be delighted to see him again.

Who acts: curtains, king, I · What happens: say, take, be, see · To what, where: wife, chalk, king · 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 (curtains, king, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 chalk	case
8	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 delighted	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 delighted	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 delighted	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 delighted	cop
13	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 delighted	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 see	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	curtains = curtain					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	past	king	king's wife	chalk			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme from chalk=Initial_Location
3	is	shall	I				delighted property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	king		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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