Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 20

"Yes, if stories came by themselves; they are so proud, they only come when they please.--But wait," he said suddenly, "there is one.

Who acts: stories, knock, one · What happens: come, be, wait, say · 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 (stories, knock, one), 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	_	6 came	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 came	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 came	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 proud	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 proud	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 proud	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 proud	advmod
13	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 proud	parataxis
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 wait	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wait	nsubj
20	please	please	INTJ	_	24 wait	discourse
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 please	punct
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 wait	punct
23	But	but	CCONJ	_	24 wait	cc
24	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wait	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 wait	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wait	parataxis
29	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	28 said	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 is	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 is	punct
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 is	expl
33	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 said	conj
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 is	nsubj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	stories		by stories = story	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location
2	is in a quote	present	stories = story		proud property	tree rules
3	come in a quote	present	stories = story			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wait in a quote	infinitive	stories = story			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	knock		suddenly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	be in a quote	present	one	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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