Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 71

"'If the tea-urn won't sing,' said the pen, 'she can leave it alone; there is a nightingale in a cage who can sing; she has not been taught much, certainly, but we need not say anything this evening about that.'

Who acts: tea urn, maid, nightingale, cage, we · What happens: not sing, say, leave, be, sing, not teach · To what, where: pen, maid, anything · 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 (tea urn, maid, nightingale, cage), 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	_	13 said	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 sing	punct
3	If	if	SCONJ	_	10 sing	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 urn	det
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 urn	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 tea	punct
7	urn	urn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sing	nsubj
8	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sing	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 sing	advmod
10	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sing	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 sing	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pen	det
15	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 leave	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 leave	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 leave	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 leave	aux
20	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 leave	obj
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 leave	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 is	punct
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 is	expl
25	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 nightingale	det
27	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 is	nsubj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 cage	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cage	det
30	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nightingale	nmod
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 sing	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sing	aux
33	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 cage	acl:relcl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 taught	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 taught	nsubj:pass
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 taught	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 taught	advmod
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 taught	aux:pass
39	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	ccomp
40	much	much	ADV	_	39 taught	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 certainly	punct
42	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	39 taught	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 say	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 say	cc
45	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 say	nsubj
46	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 say	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 say	advmod
48	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 taught	parataxis
49	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	48 say	obj
50	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 evening	det
51	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 say	obl:unmarked
52	about	about	ADP	_	53 that	case
53	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 evening	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
55	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sing speech: express a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	the tea urn					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the pen				tree rules
3	leave in a quote	can	maid	pen			alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	be in a quote	present	a nightingale in a cage		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sing speech: express in a quote	can	a cage					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
6	not teach speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · passive		maid			certainly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
7	not say speech: assert in a quote	present	we	anything		evening		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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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