Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 114

Those persons who were sitting nearest him and heard his speech, stared at him in wonderment; and one of them rose, took off his hat respectfully, and said with a serious countenance, “You are no doubt a very learned man, Monsieur.”

Who acts: persons, one, You, hostess · What happens: sit, hear, stare, rise, take off, say · To what, where: speech, wonderment, hat, doubt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (persons, one, You, hostess), 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 persons	det
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sitting	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sitting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 sitting	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nearest	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 heard	cc
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 speech	nmod:poss
11	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stared	punct
13	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stared	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 wonderment	case
17	wonderment	wonderment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stared	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 rose	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rose	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 rose	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 one	nmod
23	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rose	conj
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 took	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hat	nmod:poss
28	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
29	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	25 took	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rose	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 countenance	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 countenance	det
35	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 countenance	amod
36	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 doubt	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 doubt	punct
39	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 doubt	nsubj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 doubt	cop
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 doubt	det
42	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 man	det
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 learned	advmod
45	learned	learned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 man	amod
46	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 doubt	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Monsieur	punct
48	Monsieur	Monsieur	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 man	appos
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	that persons				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	that persons not said here	hostess's speech			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus
3	stare	past	that persons not said here		wonderment	at hostess	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
4	rise	past	one of persons				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take off	past	one of persons not said here	hostess's hat		respectfully property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	one of persons not said here			with a serious countenance	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with countenance=Manner
7	is a in a quote	present	You	no doubt and a learned man			tree rules
8	speak		hostess				nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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