Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 4

The great white snails, which grand people in olden times used to have made into fricassees; and when they had eaten them, they would say, "O, what a delicious dish!" for these people really thought them good; and these snails lived on burdock-leaves, and for them the burdock was planted.

Who acts: great white snails, snails · What happens: people, use, make, eat, say, dish · To what, where: fricassees, people, snails, burdock leaves, burdock · 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 (great white 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snails	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snails	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snails	amod
4	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 people	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 people	nsubj
7	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 times	case
10	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 people	nmod
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	15 made	mark
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	aux
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 used	xcomp
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 fricassees	case
17	fricassees	fricassee	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 say	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 say	cc
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 eaten	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eaten	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 eaten	aux
23	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 say	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eaten	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eaten	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 say	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 say	aux
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dish	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 dish	punct
31	O	o	INTJ	_	36 dish	discourse
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dish	punct
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 dish	nsubj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 dish	det
35	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dish	amod
36	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 say	obj
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 dish	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 dish	punct
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 people	case
40	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	41 people	det
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 thought	obl
42	really	really	ADV	_	43 thought	advmod
43	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 say	advcl
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 thought	obj
45	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 thought	xcomp
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 lived	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 lived	cc
48	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	49 snails	det
49	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 lived	nsubj
50	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 used	conj
51	on	on	ADP	_	54 leaves	case
52	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 leaves	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 burdock	punct
54	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 lived	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 planted	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 planted	cc
57	for	for	ADP	_	58 them	case
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 planted	obl
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 burdock	det
60	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 planted	nsubj:pass
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 planted	aux:pass
62	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 used	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	people					time		tree rules
2	use	past	the great white snails					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make	to-infinitive · perfect	the great white snails not said here		fricassees			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into fricassee=Product
4	eat	past · perfect	snails = snail	people				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	say speech: express	would	snails = snail					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	dish in a quote							tree rules
7	think speech: other	past	snails = snail not said here	snails = snail			for this people; good property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
8	live	past	this snails		burdock leaves			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Location
9	plant	past · passive		the burdock			for snails = snail	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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