Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 19

We should think of the Ice Maiden while we are up here; men say she is not kind to their race."

Who acts: We, men, river · What happens: think, be, say, not be, race · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, men, river), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Maiden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Maiden	det
6	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Maiden	compound
7	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 think	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 here	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 here	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 here	cop
11	up	up	ADV	_	12 here	advmod
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 think	parataxis
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	advcl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kind	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 kind	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 kind	advmod
19	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 say	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 race	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 race	nmod:poss
22	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kind	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	should	We	of the Ice Maiden	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	we	here property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	men		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	present	river	to men's race; kind property	tree rules
5	race		men = man		nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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