Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 50

"Oh, it is a conjuror," said Little Claus; "and he says we need not eat porridge, for he has conjured the oven full of roast meat, fish, and pie."

Who acts: Little, conjuror, we · What happens: be, say, not eat, conjure · To what, where: conjuror, porridge, oven · 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 (Little, conjuror, 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	_	7 conjuror	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 conjuror	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 conjuror	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 conjuror	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 conjuror	det
7	conjuror	conjuror	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 conjuror	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 conjuror	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	nsubj
12	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Little	flat
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 says	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 eat	nsubj
19	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 eat	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 eat	advmod
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 says	ccomp
22	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 conjured	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 conjured	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 conjured	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 conjured	aux
27	conjured	conjure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 eat	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 oven	det
29	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 conjured	obj
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 oven	amod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 meat	case
32	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 meat	compound
33	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 full	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fish	punct
35	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 meat	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pie	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 pie	cc
38	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 pie	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 pie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Little	a conjuror	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a conjuror		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	conjuror		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not eat in a quote	present	we	porridge	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient
5	conjure in a quote	present · perfect	conjuror	the oven	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Result

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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