Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 34

"There may be black snails, no doubt," said the old snail; "black snails without houses; but they are so vulgar and conceited too.

Who acts: black snails, snails · What happens: be, say · To what, where: black snails, old 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 (black snails, snails), 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	_	6 snails	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 be	expl
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 snails	cop
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snails	amod
6	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doubt	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 doubt	det
9	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snails	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 snails	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 snails	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 snail	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 snail	amod
15	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 snails	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 snails	punct
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 snails	amod
19	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obl
20	without	without	ADP	_	21 houses	case
21	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 snails	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 vulgar	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 vulgar	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 vulgar	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 vulgar	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 vulgar	advmod
27	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 conceited	cc
29	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 vulgar	conj
30	too	too	ADV	_	27 vulgar	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	infinitive		black snails and no doubt		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	black snails and no doubt	the old snail	black snails without houses obl	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	snails = snail		vulgar property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		snails = snail not said here			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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