Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 58

"How can anyone put such notions into a child's head?" said a tiresome lawyer, who had come to pay a visit, and sat on the sofa.

Who acts: anyone, tiresome lawyer · What happens: put, say, come, pay, sit · To what, where: such notions, head, visit, sofa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone, tiresome lawyer), 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	_	5 put	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 put	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 notions	amod
7	notions	notion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 head	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 head	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 child	case
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lawyer	det
17	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lawyer	amod
18	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 come	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 lawyer	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 pay	mark
24	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 visit	det
26	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pay	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sat	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sat	cc
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 sofa	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sofa	det
32	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sat	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put in a quote	can	anyone	such notions	a child's head	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent notion=Goal
2	say speech: ask	past	a tiresome lawyer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	past · perfect	a tiresome lawyer			tree rules
4	pay	to-infinitive	a tiresome lawyer not said here	a visit		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
5	sit	past	a tiresome lawyer not said here		the sofa	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location

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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