Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 43

"All right," said the farmer; "but we must have something to eat first."

Who acts: farmer, we · What happens: say, have, eat · To what, where: something · 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 (farmer, we), 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 right	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 right	det
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farmer	det
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 have	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 something	acl
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 eat	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the farmer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	must	we	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	something not said here	first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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