Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 19

He said there were as many inhabitants in that town as he had nails in his body.

Who acts: parrot, many inhabitants · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: nails, body · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, many inhabitants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:5862): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 inhabitants	amod
7	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inhabitants	nmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 many	advcl
14	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 body	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 body	nmod:poss
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nails	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	parrot			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	past	many inhabitants in that town		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	parrot	nails	parrot's body	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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