Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 54

"'No, I don't like to be always talking of what we are,' remarked the saucepan; 'let us think of some other amusement; I will begin.

Who acts: pleasure, us · What happens: not like, be, remark, let, think, begin · To what, where: saucepan, us

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 (pleasure, us), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
3	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 like	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 No	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 like	advmod
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	12 talking	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 talking	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 talking	advmod
12	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 like	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 talking	obl
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 are	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remarked	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 remarked	punct
19	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 talking	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 saucepan	det
21	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remarked	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 like	conj
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 amusement	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 amusement	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 amusement	amod
30	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 think	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 begin	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 begin	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 begin	aux
34	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 like	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not like in a quote	present · do-support	pleasure			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is in a quote	to-infinitive	pleasure not said here		always, talk property	tree rules
3	remark speech: assert in a quote	participle	pleasure not said here	the saucepan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent saucepan=Topic
4	let in a quote	infinitive	pleasure not said here	us		tree rules
5	think speech: other in a quote	infinitive	us not said here		of some other amusement	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	begin in a quote	future	pleasure			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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