Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 103

It will please Polly perhaps," she said, laughing at a large gray parrot, who was swinging himself proudly on a ring in a handsome brass cage. "

Who acts: cage, Polly · What happens: please, say, laugh, swing · To what, where: Polly, parrot, ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cage, Polly), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 please	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 please	aux
3	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Polly	Polly	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 please	obj
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	3 please	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 please	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laughing	punct
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 said	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	16 parrot	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 parrot	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 parrot	amod
15	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 parrot	amod
16	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laughing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 swinging	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 swinging	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 swinging	aux
20	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 laughing	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 swinging	obj
22	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	20 swinging	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 ring	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ring	det
25	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swinging	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 cage	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cage	det
28	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cage	amod
29	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cage	compound
30	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swinging	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 please	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 please	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	please	future	cage	Polly		perhaps property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Polly				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	laugh in a quote	gerund	Polly not said here			at a large gray parrot	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	swing in a quote	past · progressive		parrot	a ring	in a handsome brass cage; proudly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ring=Source in cage=Trajectory

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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