Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 47

My only pleasure is to be made clean and shining after dinner, and to sit in my place and have a little sensible conversation with my neighbors.

Who acts: My · What happens: make, shine, sit, have, please · To what, where: only pleasure, place, little sensible conversation

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 (My), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 pleasure	nmod:poss
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pleasure	amod
3	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
5	to	to	PART	_	7 made	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shining	cc
10	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 made	conj
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 dinner	case
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shining	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sit	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sit	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sit	mark
16	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 place	nmod:poss
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sit	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sit	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 conversation	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 conversation	amod
24	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 conversation	amod
25	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 neighbors	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 neighbors	nmod:poss
28	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 conversation	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		My only pleasure			clean property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	shine	gerund				after dinner		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	to-infinitive			my place			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
4	have	present		a little sensible conversation			with my neighbors	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Patient
5	please		My					nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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