Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 36

I lie on the sea-shore," said Corsor; "I have high-roads and pleasure-gardens; I have given birth to a poet who was witty and entertaining, which they are not all.

Who acts: I, Corsor, poet · What happens: lie, say, have, give, be, entertain · To what, where: sea shore, high roads, birth, poet · 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 (I, Corsor, poet), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lie	nsubj
2	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 shore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shore	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sea	punct
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lie	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lie	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 lie	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lie	conj
11	Corsor	Corsor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lie	conj
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 roads	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 high	punct
18	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gardens	cc
20	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gardens	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 pleasure	punct
22	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 roads	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 given	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 given	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux
26	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 lie	parataxis
27	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 poet	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 poet	det
30	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	obl
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 witty	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 witty	cop
33	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 poet	acl:relcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 entertaining	cc
35	entertaining	entertain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 witty	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 all	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 all	nsubj
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 all	nsubj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 all	cop
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 all	advmod
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 poet	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present	I			the sea shore		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Corsor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	I	high roads and pleasure gardens				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
4	give	present · perfect	I	birth	a poet			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to poet=Recipient
5	is	past	a poet				witty property	tree rules
6	entertain	gerund	a poet not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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