Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 81

He said he thought his cold would never leave him when he went out woodcutting, for he was a master sawyer, and had to supply wood to the whole parish.

Who acts: owner, cold · What happens: say, think, not leave, go out, woodcut, be · To what, where: owner, wood, whole parish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner, cold), 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	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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cold	nmod:poss
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leave	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 leave	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 leave	advmod
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 leave	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 went	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 leave	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 went	compound:prt
15	woodcutting	woodcut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sawyer	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	22 sawyer	case
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sawyer	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sawyer	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sawyer	det
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sawyer	compound
22	sawyer	sawyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 woodcutting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 supply	mark
27	supply	supply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 supply	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 parish	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 parish	det
31	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 parish	amod
32	parish	parish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 supply	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	owner				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other	past	owner				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not leave	would	owner's cold	owner			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	go out	past	owner				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	woodcut	gerund	owner not said here				tree rules
6	is	past	owner			for a master sawyer	tree rules
7	have	past	owner not said here				tree rules
8	supply	to-infinitive	owner not said here	wood	the whole parish		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wood=Theme to parish=Recipient

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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