Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 72

"'I think it highly improper,' said the tea-kettle, who was kitchen singer, and half-brother to the tea-urn, 'that a rich foreign bird should be listened to here.

Who acts: I, nightingale, tea kettle · What happens: think, improper, say, be, listen · To what, where: tea kettle, kitchen singer, rich foreign bird · 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 (I, nightingale, tea kettle), 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	_	4 think	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 improper	nsubj
6	highly	highly	ADV	_	7 improper	advmod
7	improper	improper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kettle	det
12	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kettle	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 tea	punct
14	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 singer	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 singer	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 singer	cop
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 singer	compound
19	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kettle	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brother	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 brother	cc
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 brother	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 half	punct
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 urn	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 urn	det
27	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 urn	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 tea	punct
29	urn	urn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brother	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 '	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 brother	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 listened	mark
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bird	det
34	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bird	amod
35	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bird	amod
36	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 listened	nsubj:pass
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 listened	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 listened	aux:pass
39	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 here	case
41	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 listened	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	improper in a quote		nightingale		highly property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the tea kettle and kitchen singer		tree rules
4	is a in a quote	past	the tea kettle and kitchen singer	kitchen singer		tree rules
5	listen in a quote	should · passive		a rich foreign bird		tree rules

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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