Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 138

With other topics he was not so fortunate; every moment brought about some new confusion, and threatened to become a perfect Babel; for the worthy Bachelor was really too ignorant, and the simplest observations of the Councillor sounded to him too daring and phantastical.

Who acts: Councillor, moment, worthy Bachelor, simplest observations · What happens: not be, bring, threaten, become, be, sound · To what, where: perfect Babel, Councillor

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 (Councillor, moment, worthy Bachelor, simplest observations), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 topics	case
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 topics	amod
3	topics	topic	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fortunate	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fortunate	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fortunate	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fortunate	advmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 fortunate	advmod
8	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	nsubj
12	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fortunate	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	16 confusion	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 confusion	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 confusion	amod
16	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 threatened	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 threatened	cc
19	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 brought	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 become	mark
21	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 threatened	xcomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Babel	det
23	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Babel	amod
24	Babel	babel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 become	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 ignorant	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 ignorant	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Bachelor	det
28	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Bachelor	amod
29	Bachelor	Bachelor	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 ignorant	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 ignorant	cop
31	really	really	ADV	_	33 ignorant	advmod
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 ignorant	advmod
33	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fortunate	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sounded	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 sounded	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 observations	det
37	simplest	simple	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 observations	amod
38	observations	observation	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 sounded	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 Councillor	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Councillor	det
41	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 observations	nmod
42	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fortunate	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 sounded	obl
45	too	too	ADV	_	46 daring	advmod
46	daring	daring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 sounded	advcl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 phantastical	cc
48	phantastical	phantastical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 daring	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fortunate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Councillor			with other topics; fortunate property	tree rules
2	bring	past	every moment			about some new confusion	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	threaten	participle	every moment not said here				tree rules
4	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	every moment not said here	a perfect Babel			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	the worthy Bachelor			ignorant property	tree rules
6	sound	past	the simplest observations of the Councillor		Councillor		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to he=Experiencer
7	observe			the Councillor			nom observation «act transitive»: of=patient

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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