Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 25

They will be very proud when they find that I am going to marry a Turkish angel; but you must think of some very pretty stories to tell them, for my parents like to hear stories better than anything.

Who acts: thoughts, I, you, parents · What happens: be, find, go, marry, think, tell · To what, where: Turkish angel, thoughts, stories · 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 (thoughts, I, you, parents), 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	5 proud	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 proud	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 proud	advmod
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 find	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
8	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	parataxis
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 going	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 find	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 marry	mark
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 angel	det
16	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 angel	amod
17	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marry	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 think	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 think	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 think	aux
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 proud	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 stories	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 stories	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 pretty	advmod
26	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stories	amod
27	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 think	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 think	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hear	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 hear	mark
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 parents	nmod:poss
34	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hear	nsubj
35	like	like	SCONJ	_	37 hear	mark
36	to	to	PART	_	37 hear	mark
37	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tell	conj
38	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hear	obj
39	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 hear	advmod
40	than	than	ADP	_	41 anything	case
41	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 better	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	future	thoughts = thought			proud property	tree rules
2	find	present	thoughts = thought				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	present · progressive	I				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry	to-infinitive	I not said here	a Turkish angel			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angel=Patient
5	think speech: other	must	you			of some pretty stories	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here		thoughts = thought		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
7	hear	to-infinitive	my parents	stories		well property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=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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