Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 7

It is not my habit to talk much; but now that we have so little time to converse together, I will say something more than usual.

Who acts: dog, we, I · What happens: not be, talk, have, converse, say · To what, where: habit, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, we, I), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 habit	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 habit	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 habit	advmod
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 habit	nmod:poss
5	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 talk	mark
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 habit	acl
8	much	much	ADV	_	7 talk	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 say	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 say	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 say	advcl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 little	advmod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 converse	mark
19	converse	converse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 time	acl
20	together	together	ADV	_	19 converse	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 say	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 say	aux
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 habit	parataxis
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 say	obj
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 say	advmod
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 usual	case
28	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 more	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 habit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	dog	my habit			tree rules
2	talk	to-infinitive					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	we		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	converse speech: other	to-infinitive	we not said here			together property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	future	I	something	now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic

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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