Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 10

When all the people returned home, they said it had been very romantic, and that it was quite a different sort of thing to a pic-nic or tea-party.

Who acts: people, Bell · What happens: return, say, be · To what, where: different sort · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Bell), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 returned	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 people	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 returned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 romantic	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 romantic	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 romantic	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 romantic	advmod
14	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sort	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sort	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 sort	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sort	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sort	cop
20	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	23 sort	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sort	det
22	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sort	amod
23	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 romantic	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 thing	case
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sort	nmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	30 nic	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 nic	det
28	pic	pic	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nic	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 pic	punct
30	nic	nic	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sort	nmod
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 party	cc
32	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 party	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 tea	punct
34	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nic	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	all people		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	People			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past · perfect	Bell		romantic property	tree rules
4	is a	past	Bell	quite different sort	of thing; to a pic nic or tea party	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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