Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 31

"How those two do sit and chatter together," said the parlor-cat; "I have had enough of their mewing."

Who acts: two, parlor cat, birds · What happens: sit, chatter, say, have · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (two, parlor cat, birds), 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	_	6 sit	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sit	advmod
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 two	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sit	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	aux
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 chatter	cc
8	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sit	conj
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 chatter	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sit	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sit	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cat	det
14	parlor	parlor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cat	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 parlor	punct
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 had	aux
21	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sit	parataxis
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 had	advmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 mewing	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mewing	nmod:poss
25	mewing	mewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sit	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	present · do-support	that two		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chatter in a quote	infinitive	that two not said here	together property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the parlor cat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	have in a quote	present · perfect	all birds = bird	of roses's mewing; enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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