Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 17

Listen, what a drumming there is on the burdock-leaves; turn, turn, turn; turn, turn, turn," said the father-snail.

Who acts: drumming · What happens: listen, be, turn, say · To what, where: burdock leaves, father snail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drumming), 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	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Listen	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drumming	det
5	drumming	drumming	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 leaves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 leaves	det
10	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaves	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 burdock	punct
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 is	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 turn	punct
14	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Listen	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turn	punct
16	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Listen	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turn	punct
18	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Listen	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 turn	punct
20	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Listen	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turn	punct
22	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 turn	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turn	punct
24	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 turn	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 snail	det
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 snail	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 father	punct
31	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	listen	infinitive				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	be	present	a drumming		the burdock leaves; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Location
3	turn	infinitive				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	infinitive				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	turn	infinitive				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	turn	infinitive				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	turn	infinitive				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	turn	infinitive				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
9	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the father snail		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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