Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 127

"I believe you," said the mother; "if one takes two cups of hot elder-tea it is quite natural that one gets into warm countries!"

Who acts: mother, one, cup · What happens: believe, say, take, be, get · To what, where: you, two cups, warm countries · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, one, cup), 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 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 believe	nsubj
3	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 believe	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 takes	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 takes	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 takes	mark
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 takes	nsubj
14	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 cups	nummod
16	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 takes	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 tea	case
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tea	amod
19	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tea	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 elder	punct
21	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cups	nmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 natural	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 natural	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 natural	advmod
25	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 takes	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 gets	mark
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 gets	nsubj
28	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 natural	advcl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 countries	case
30	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 countries	amod
31	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gets	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 natural	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe in a quote	present	the mother = mother	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	say speech: express	past	the mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	one	two cups of hot elder tea			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	cup			natural property	tree rules
5	get in a quote	present	one		warm countries		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into country=Destination

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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