Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 41

"Let us have supper laid in the stable," said one of the travellers; "then we shall know what we are breathing."

Who acts: us, one, we · What happens: let, have, lay, say, know, breathe · To what, where: us, supper, stable · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, one, we), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
6	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 supper	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 stable	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stable	det
9	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 said	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 travellers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 travellers	det
16	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 know	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 breathing	obj
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 breathing	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 breathing	aux
26	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 know	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
2	have in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	supper			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
3	lay in a quote	participle		supper not said here	the stable		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stable=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	one of the travellers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	know in a quote	shall	we			then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	breathe in a quote	present · progressive	we				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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