Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 100

And what strange things people did say, to be sure! every one whom he questioned had a different tale to tell, though they all thought it very beautiful.

Who acts: strange things, son, one, people · What happens: say, be, question, have, tell, think · To what, where: one, different tale, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange things, son, one, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sure	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	11 sure	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 sure	cop
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 sure	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 questioned	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 questioned	nsubj
17	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 one	acl:relcl
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sure	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tale	det
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tale	amod
21	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 tell	mark
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tale	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 thought	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 they	det
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thought	obj
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 beautiful	advmod
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thought	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	strange things				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	is	to-infinitive				sure property	tree rules
3	question speech: other	past	son		every one		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient
4	have	past	every one	a different tale			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	every one not said here	a different tale not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	past	people	tale		beautiful property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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