Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 23

They have so much to talk about that it will not be finished till Christmas."

Who acts: tails · What happens: have, talk, not finish · To what, where: much, two

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tails), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 finished	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 finished	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 finished	nsubj:pass
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 finished	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 finished	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 finished	aux:pass
13	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 talk	advcl
14	till	till	ADP	_	15 Christmas	case
15	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 finished	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	tails = tail	much		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	talk	to-infinitive				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not finish	future · passive		two	till Christmas	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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