Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 49

"I should like to know," said another, "If the swallow who flies so far in her many journeys to foreign lands, ever met with a better climate than this.

Who acts: I, swallow, linen · What happens: like, know, say, fly, meet, journey · To what, where: many journeys, foreign lands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, swallow, linen), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 another	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 swallow	punct
13	If	if	SCONJ	_	15 swallow	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 swallow	det
15	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 another	appos
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 flies	nsubj
17	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 swallow	acl:relcl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 far	advmod
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 flies	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 journeys	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 journeys	nmod:poss
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 journeys	amod
23	journeys	journey	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flies	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 lands	case
25	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lands	amod
26	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flies	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 met	punct
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 met	advmod
29	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 lands	acl
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 climate	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 climate	det
32	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 climate	amod
33	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 met	obl
34	than	than	ADP	_	35 this	case
35	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 climate	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	should	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fly in a quote	present	the swallow		linen's many journeys		to foreign lands; far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in journey=Location
5	meet in a quote	participle		foreign lands not said here		ever	with a better climate than this	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with climate=Co-Agent
6	journey in a quote		linen					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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