Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 5
He had exquisite manners, and bowed to the company on all sides; for he had noble blood, and was, moreover, accustomed to the society of man alone; and that makes a great difference.
Who acts: King, that · What happens: have, bow, be, accustom, make · To what, where: exquisite manners, noble blood, great difference
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Leap-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, that), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 manners | amod |
| 4 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bowed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bowed | cc |
| 7 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 company | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 company | det |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bowed | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 sides | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 sides | det |
| 13 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 company | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 had | case |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 18 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 blood | amod |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 moreover | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 moreover | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 moreover | cop |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 moreover | punct |
| 24 | moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 17 had | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 accustomed | punct |
| 26 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 moreover | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 society | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 society | det |
| 29 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 accustomed | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 man | case |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 society | nmod |
| 32 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 31 man | advmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 makes | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 makes | cc |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 makes | nsubj |
| 36 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 difference | det |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 difference | amod |
| 39 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 makes | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | King | exquisite manners | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bow | participle | King not said here | to the company on all sides | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to company=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | King | noble blood | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | moreover property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | accustom | participle | to the society of man | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make | present | that | a great difference | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product |
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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