Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 91

These good people gave the child food and drink, and said he should stay with them all night, and that the next day the old man, who was called Giuseppe, would go and speak to his mother.

Who acts: good people, boy · What happens: give, say, stay, call, go, speak · To what, where: child food, old man · 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 (good people, boy), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 people	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 food	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	compound
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drink	cc
9	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stay	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stay	aux
15	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stay	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stay	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 go	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 day	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
24	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 day	amod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 day	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 called	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 called	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 called	aux:pass
32	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 man	acl:relcl
33	Giuseppe	Giuseppe	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 called	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 day	punct
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 go	aux
36	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 speak	cc
38	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 go	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 mother	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mother	nmod:poss
41	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 speak	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	this good people	the child food and drink			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	this good people not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stay	should	boy		night	with people	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location
4	call	past · passive		the old man			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	go	would					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	speak speech: other	infinitive				to boy's mother	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mother=Co-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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