Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 62

And it became so, all the rags were turned into white paper; but the collar came to be just this very piece of white paper we here see, and on which the story is printed; and that was because it boasted so terribly afterwards of what had never happened to it.

Who acts: conscience, collar, we · What happens: become, turn, come, be, see, print · To what, where: rags, white paper, piece, story, conscience

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conscience, collar, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 became	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 became	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 rags	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rags	det
8	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turned	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	aux:pass
10	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 became	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 paper	case
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 paper	amod
13	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 collar	det
17	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	24 piece	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 piece	cop
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 piece	advmod
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 piece	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 piece	advmod
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 paper	case
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 paper	amod
27	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piece	nmod
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 see	advmod
30	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 paper	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 printed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 printed	cc
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 printed	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 story	det
36	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 printed	nsubj:pass
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 printed	aux:pass
38	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 came	advcl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 boasted	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 boasted	cc
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 boasted	obl:unmarked
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 boasted	cop
43	because	because	SCONJ	_	45 boasted	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 boasted	nsubj
45	boasted	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
46	so	so	ADV	_	47 terribly	advmod
47	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	45 boasted	advmod
48	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	50 what	advmod
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 what	case
50	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 happened	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 happened	aux
52	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	53 happened	advmod
53	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 boasted	parataxis
54	to	to	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 happened	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	conscience					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	turn	past · passive		all rags		white paper		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into paper=Trajectory
3	come	past	the collar					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	the collar not said here	this piece			of white paper	tree rules
5	see	present	we	white paper not said here		here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paper=Stimulus
6	print	present · passive		the story				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination
7	is	past	conscience				that obl:unmarked; boast, terribly property	tree rules
8	not happen	past · perfect			conscience			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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