Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 75

But the old goblin said he should not like his wife to have such an accomplishment, and thought his boys would have the same objection.

Who acts: old goblin, house, boys · What happens: say, not like, have, think · To what, where: wife, accomplishment, same objection · 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 (old goblin, house, boys), 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	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goblin	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goblin	amod
4	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 like	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 like	advmod
9	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 like	xcomp
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 accomplishment	det:predet
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 accomplishment	det
16	accomplishment	accomplishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thought	cc
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 boys	nmod:poss
21	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thought	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 objection	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 objection	amod
26	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old goblin		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not like	should	house	house's wife	tree rules
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	house not said here	such accomplishment	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accomplishment=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	the old goblin not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	would	house's boys	the same objection	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=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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