Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 69

People said it could not be sold at the shop, to wrap up butter and sugar, because it had been written upon.

Who acts: People · What happens: say, not sell, wrap up, write · To what, where: hearth, shop, butter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sold	nsubj:pass
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sold	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sold	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sold	aux:pass
7	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 shop	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shop	det
10	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sold	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wrap	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wrap	mark
13	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 wrap	compound:prt
15	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrap	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sugar	cc
17	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 butter	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 written	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 written	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 written	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 written	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 written	aux:pass
23	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 wrap	advcl
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 written	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	People			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not sell	could · passive		hearth	the shop	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at shop=Asset
3	wrap up	to-infinitive		butter and sugar		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent butter=Theme
4	write	past · perfect · passive		hearth		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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