Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 25

"Yes, but I do," said the mother; "I should like to be taken to the palace, and boiled, and laid upon a silver dish, as was done to all our ancestors; and you may be sure it must be something very uncommon."

Who acts: mother, you, dish · What happens: do, say, like, take, boil, lay · To what, where: silver dish, something · 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 (mother, you, dish), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 do	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 do	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
16	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	19 taken	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 taken	aux:pass
19	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 like	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 palace	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 palace	det
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taken	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 boiled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 boiled	cc
25	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 laid	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 laid	cc
28	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 boiled	conj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 dish	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dish	det
31	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dish	compound
32	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laid	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 done	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 done	mark
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 done	aux:pass
36	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 laid	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	40 ancestors	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 ancestors	det:predet
39	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 ancestors	nmod:poss
40	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 done	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 sure	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 sure	cc
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 sure	nsubj
44	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 sure	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 sure	cop
46	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 something	nsubj
48	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 something	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 something	cop
50	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	46 sure	ccomp
51	very	very	ADV	_	52 uncommon	advmod
52	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 something	amod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 something	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present	the mother = mother				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like in a quote	should	the mother = mother				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	take not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the mother = mother not said here			to the palace result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to palace=Result
5	boil in a quote	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	lay in a quote	participle			a silver dish		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon dish=Destination
7	do in a quote	past · passive				to our ancestors	vn act-114-1 «NP V»
8	is in a quote	may	you			sure property	tree rules
9	is a in a quote	must	dish	something			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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