Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 10

"I sing so," he said, "that sixteen native crickets who have chirped from their youth up, and have never yet had a card house of their own, would become thinner than they are with envy if they were to hear me."

Who acts: figure, crickets · What happens: sing, say, chirp up, not have, become, be · To what, where: that, youth, card house, figure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figure, crickets), 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	_	3 sing	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sing	nsubj
3	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 sing	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 chirped	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 chirped	nsubj:pass
12	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 crickets	nummod
13	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 crickets	amod
14	crickets	cricket	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chirped	nsubj:pass
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 chirped	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 chirped	aux
17	chirped	chirp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 youth	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 youth	nmod:poss
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chirped	obl
21	up	up	ADP	_	17 chirped	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 had	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 had	advmod
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 house	det
29	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	compound
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 own	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 own	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 house	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 become	punct
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 become	aux
36	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	conj
37	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 become	xcomp
38	than	than	ADP	_	42 envy	case
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 envy	nsubj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 envy	cop
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 envy	case
42	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 thinner	obl
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 hear	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 hear	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 hear	aux
46	to	to	PART	_	47 hear	mark
47	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 become	advcl
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 hear	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	present	figure					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	figure					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	chirp up in a quote	present · perfect · passive		that	crickets's youth			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	not have in a quote	present	figure not said here	a card house of crickets's own		yet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
5	become in a quote	would	figure not said here				thin property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	is in a quote	present	crickets = cricket				than envy	tree rules
7	hear a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	crickets = cricket	figure				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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