Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 109

The only human speech which Polly could utter, and which she sometimes chattered forth most comically, was "Now let us be men."

Who acts: only human speech, Polly, men · What happens: utter, chatter, be · To what, where: only human speech · 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 (only human speech, Polly, men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speech	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 speech	amod
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 speech	amod
4	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 let	nsubj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 utter	nsubj
6	Polly	Polly	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 utter	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 utter	aux
8	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 speech	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chattered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chattered	cc
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 chattered	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chattered	nsubj
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 chattered	advmod
14	chattered	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speech	conj
15	forth	forth	ADV	_	14 chattered	advmod
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 comically	advmod
17	comically	comically	ADV	_	14 chattered	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speech	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 let	cop
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
21	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 let	advmod
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 be	nsubj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	could	the only human speech				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	chatter	past	Polly	the only human speech		comically, forth, sometimes property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	the only human speech		now	let property	tree rules
4	be in a quote	infinitive	men				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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