Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 62

But the lawyer did not like such jokes, and he would say as he had just said, "How can anyone put such nonsense into a child's head! what absurd fancies there are!"

Who acts: lawyer, anyone · What happens: not like, say, put, be · To what, where: such jokes, such nonsense, head · 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 (lawyer, anyone), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 like	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lawyer	det
3	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jokes	amod
8	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 like	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 say	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 like	conj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 said	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	aux
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
18	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 put	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
21	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 put	advmod
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 put	aux
23	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 nonsense	amod
26	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	31 head	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 head	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 child	case
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 put	ccomp
34	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fancies	amod
35	fancies	fancy	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 are	nsubj
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 are	expl
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 what	cop
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	the lawyer	such jokes		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot joke=Theme
2	say speech: express	would	lawyer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	lawyer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	put in a quote	can	anyone	such nonsense	a child's head	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nonsense=Goal
5	is a in a quote	present	anyone not said here			tree rules

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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