Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 90

And the children clapped their hands and cried, "Tell another, tell another," for they wanted to hear the story of "Ivede-Avede;" but they only had "Humpty Dumpty."

Who acts: children, story · What happens: clap, cry, tell, want, hear, have · To what, where: hands, another, story, Humpty Dumpty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, story), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 clapped	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clapped	nsubj
4	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clapped	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clapped	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Tell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Tell	punct
11	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	conj
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 Tell	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Tell	conj
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 tell	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Tell	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 wanted	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Tell	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hear	mark
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 story	det
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hear	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Ivede	case
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Ivede	punct
27	Ivede	Ivede	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 story	nmod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Avede	punct
29	Avede	Avede	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Ivede	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 but	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 had	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 had	advmod
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 Dumpty	punct
37	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Dumpty	compound
38	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clapped	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 clapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	clap	past	the children	children's hands	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the children not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the children not said here	another	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent another=Recipient clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the children not said here	another	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent another=Recipient
5	want	past	children = child		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	the story of Ivede and Avede	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
7	have	past	story	Humpty Dumpty	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dumpty=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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