Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 37

"Here in this house there ought to be a wedding-day kept," said the parlor-cat, "or else I would not give a mew for the whole affair."

Who acts: parlor cat · What happens: be, keep, say, not give · To what, where: wedding day, mew · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parlor cat), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 give	obl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	obl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Here	conj
7	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 said	aux
8	to	to	PART	_	13 day	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 day	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 wedding	punct
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	advcl
14	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 day	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cat	det
19	parlor	parlor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cat	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 parlor	punct
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 else	cc
25	else	else	ADV	_	2 Here	conj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 give	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 give	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 give	advmod
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 mew	det
31	mew	mew	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 affair	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 affair	det
34	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 affair	amod
35	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	the parlor cat not said here	a wedding day		tree rules
2	keep in a quote	participle		a wedding day not said here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	ought	the parlor cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not give in a quote	would	the parlor cat = cat	a mew	for the whole affair	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent mew=Theme for affair=Asset

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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