Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 79

Everything that was peculiar and displeasing in them--that Kay knew how to imitate: and at such times all the people said, “The boy is certainly very clever!”

Who acts: Everything, Kay, people, boy · What happens: be, displease, know, imitate, say · To what, where: peculiar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, Kay, 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 peculiar	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 peculiar	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 peculiar	cop
4	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 displeasing	cc
6	displeasing	displease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 peculiar	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 displeasing	obl
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 knew	mark
11	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 peculiar	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 imitate	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 imitate	mark
15	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 knew	xcomp
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 times	case
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 times	amod
20	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 said	obl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 people	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 peculiar	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 clever	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 clever	punct
27	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boy	det
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 clever	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 clever	cop
30	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	32 clever	advmod
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 clever	advmod
32	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	ccomp
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 clever	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 peculiar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Everything	peculiar			tree rules
2	displease	gerund	Everything not said here			in streets = street	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	know	past	Kay				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	imitate	to-infinitive	Kay not said here				vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: express	past	all people		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	the boy			certainly, clever property	tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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