Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 42

"We have a wife for him," said the gnats; "a hundred man-steps from here there is a little snail with a house, sitting on a gooseberry-bush; she is quite alone, and old enough to be married.

Who acts: We, gnats, little snail, wife · What happens: have, say, be, sit, marry · To what, where: wife, hundred man steps, gooseberry bush · 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 (We, gnats, little snail, wife), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gnats	det
12	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 steps	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 steps	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hundred	det
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 steps	nummod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 steps	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
19	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	ccomp
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 here	case
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 steps	nmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 is	expl
23	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 steps	acl:relcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 snail	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 snail	amod
26	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 is	nsubj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 snail	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sitting	punct
31	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 snail	acl
32	on	on	ADP	_	36 bush	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bush	det
34	gooseberry	gooseberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bush	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 gooseberry	punct
36	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sitting	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 alone	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 alone	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 alone	cop
40	quite	quite	ADV	_	41 alone	advmod
41	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 old	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 old	cc
44	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
45	enough	enough	ADV	_	44 old	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	48 married	mark
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 married	aux:pass
48	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 old	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	We	a wife		for wood	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the gnats				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be in a quote	present	a little snail with a house	hundred man steps not said here	there		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot step=Theme
4	sit in a quote	gerund	a little snail with a house not said here		a gooseberry bush		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bush=Location
5	is in a quote	present	wife			alone property	tree rules
6	marry in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the gnats not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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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