Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 43

But I cannot bear even that, and it was very foolish to give us punch and hot salmon; I shall speak about it to our hostess, the agent's lady.

Who acts: I, glass · What happens: not bear, be, give, speak · To what, where: that, punch, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, glass), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 bear	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bear	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bear	advmod
5	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 that	advmod
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bear	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 foolish	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 foolish	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 foolish	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 foolish	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 foolish	advmod
13	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bear	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 foolish	advcl
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 salmon	cc
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 salmon	amod
20	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 punch	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 speak	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 speak	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 speak	aux
24	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bear	conj
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 speak	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 hostess	case
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hostess	nmod:poss
29	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 speak	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lady	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 agent	det
32	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lady	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 agent	case
34	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hostess	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not bear	can	I	that			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
2	is	past	glass			foolish property	tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	glass not said here	punch and hot salmon	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient punch=Theme
4	speak speech: other	shall	I			about glass; to our hostess and the agent's lady	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic to hostess=Co-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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