Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 16
But in his reply, he said, if he had to take a part, he must enjoy the sport from his own home; they were to arrange for him to do so; and so they did.
Who acts: slit, things · What happens: say, have, take, enjoy, arrange, do · To what, where: reply, part, sport, own home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slit, things), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 reply | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 reply | nmod:poss |
| 4 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reply | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 enjoy | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 enjoy | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 enjoy | aux |
| 19 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 take | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sport | det |
| 21 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enjoy | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 home | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 home | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 home | amod |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enjoy | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 arrange | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 arrange | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 arrange | aux |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 arrange | mark |
| 30 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 do | nsubj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 arrange | ccomp |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 do | advmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 did | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 did | cc |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 did | advmod |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 did | nsubj |
| 40 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | slit | slit's reply | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | slit | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | slit not said here | a part | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | must | slit | the sport | slit's own home | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sport=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | arrange | past | things = thing | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | slit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | do | past | things = thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | reply | slit | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=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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