Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 69

I need not describe it, but only say that there stood in it an earthen pot with handles, made for holding fire, which in Italy is called a marito.

Who acts: I · What happens: not need, describe, say, stand, make, hold · To what, where: room, earthen pot, fire, Italy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 need	advmod
4	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 describe	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 need	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 stood	mark
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stood	advmod
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stood	obl
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pot	det
16	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pot	amod
17	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 handles	case
19	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pot	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pot	acl
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 holding	mark
23	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 made	advcl
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holding	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 called	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 called	nsubj:pass
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Italy	case
28	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 called	obl
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 called	aux:pass
30	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fire	acl:relcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 marito	det
32	marito	marito	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 called	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not need	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	describe not said to happen	infinitive	I not said here	room			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	say speech: assert	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stand	past		a earthen pot	room; there	with handles	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pot=Theme in it=Destination
5	make	participle		a earthen pot not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	hold	gerund		fire			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
7	call	present · passive		fire	Italy		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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