Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 55
In other respects the whole went off very quietly, for the old folks could not bear noise and merriment; but old Dame Snail made a brilliant speech.
Who acts: whole, old folks, old Dame · What happens: respect, go off, not bear, make · To what, where: other, noise, brilliant speech
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole, old folks, old Dame), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 other | case |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 respects | obl |
| 3 | respects | respect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whole | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 respects | ccomp |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 quietly | advmod |
| 9 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bear | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 bear | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 folks | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 folks | amod |
| 14 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bear | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 bear | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 bear | advmod |
| 17 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | conj |
| 18 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bear | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 merriment | cc |
| 20 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 noise | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 Dame | cc |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Dame | amod |
| 24 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 made | nsubj |
| 25 | Snail | Snail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Dame | flat |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 respects | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 speech | det |
| 28 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 speech | amod |
| 29 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 respects | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | present | other | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go off | past | the whole | quietly property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not bear | could | the old folks | noise and merriment | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past | old Dame | a brilliant speech | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=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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