Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 13

"I promise you I will not say it any more," said the other; but as soon as people came by, nodding to him, and wishing him "Good day," he became so pleased, and thought how grand it looked to have five horses ploughing in his field, that he cried out again, "Gee-up, all my horses!"

Who acts: I, other, people, Big, dead, five horses · What happens: promise, not say, say, come by, nod, wish · To what, where: you, dead, Big, five horses, field, Gee up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other, people, Big), 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 promise	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 promise	nsubj
3	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 promise	iobj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 say	advmod
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promise	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	obj
10	any	any	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 say	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 came	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	23 came	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nodding	punct
26	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 came	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 nodding	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wishing	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wishing	cc
31	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 nodding	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wishing	obj
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 day	punct
34	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 day	amod
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wishing	obl:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 became	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 became	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 became	nsubj
39	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 pleased	advmod
41	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 became	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 thought	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 thought	cc
44	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	parataxis
45	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	46 grand	advmod
46	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 thought	xcomp
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 looked	nsubj
48	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 grand	acl:relcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 have	mark
50	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 looked	xcomp
51	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 horses	nummod
52	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 have	obj
53	ploughing	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 horses	acl
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 field	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 field	nmod:poss
56	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 ploughing	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 cried	punct
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 cried	mark
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 cried	nsubj
60	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 thought	conj
61	out	out	ADP	_	60 cried	compound:prt
62	again	again	ADV	_	60 cried	advmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 up	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 up	punct
65	Gee	gee	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 up	compound
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 up	punct
67	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 cried	obl
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 up	punct
69	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	71 horses	det:predet
70	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 horses	nmod:poss
71	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 cried	obj
72	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
73	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	present	I		you				vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not say speech: assert in a quote	future	I	dead					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	the other						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come by	past	people					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	nod	gerund	people not said here		Big				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	wish	gerund	people not said here	Big			day		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
7	become	past	Big					pleased property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	think speech: other	past						grand property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	look	past	dead						tree rules
10	have	to-infinitive	dead not said here	five horses					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
11	plough	gerund	five horses not said here			Big's field			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
12	cry out speech: express	past	Big	Gee up			again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic

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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