Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 40

"Thank-you," said the mother-snail; "but our boy shall not go to live in an ant-hill.

Who acts: mother snail, boy · What happens: thank, say, not go, live · To what, where: you, ant hill · 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 snail, boy), 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 you	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snail	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snail	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
11	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 boy	nmod:poss
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 go	advmod
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Thank	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 live	mark
21	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 hill	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hill	det
24	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hill	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 ant	punct
26	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 live	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother snail			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not go in a quote	shall	our boy			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	live in a quote	to-infinitive	our boy not said here		a ant hill	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location

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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