Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 37

"I certainly know a most beautiful bride," said one of the ants; "but I fear it would not do, for she is a queen."

Who acts: I, one, business, bride · What happens: know, say, fear, not do, be · To what, where: beautiful bride · 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 (I, one, business, bride), 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	_	4 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bride	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 beautiful	advmod
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bride	amod
8	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 said	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 ants	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ants	det
15	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fear	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 but	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 fear	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 fear	nsubj
20	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 do	advmod
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fear	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 queen	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	30 queen	case
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 queen	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 queen	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 queen	det
30	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 fear	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	I	a beautiful bride	certainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	one of the ants			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fear in a quote	present	I			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not do in a quote	would	business			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	bride		for a queen	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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