Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 139

They looked at one another from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet; and when matters grew to too high a pitch, then the Bachelor talked Latin, in the hope of being better understood--but it was of no use after all.

Who acts: events, matters, Bachelor, matter · What happens: look, grow, talk, be, crown · To what, where: crown, Latin, hope, head

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 (events, matters, Bachelor, matter), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 looked	obl
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 one	fixed
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 crown	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crown	det
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 head	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crown	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 soles	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 soles	det
14	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 head	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 feet	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 feet	det
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 soles	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 grew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grew	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 grew	advmod
21	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 grew	nsubj
22	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 pitch	case
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 high	advmod
25	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pitch	amod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pitch	det
27	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grew	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 talked	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 talked	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Bachelor	det
31	Bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 talked	nsubj
32	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 grew	conj
33	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 talked	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hope	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 hope	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hope	det
37	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 talked	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 better	case
39	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 better	cop
40	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 hope	conj
41	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 better	cop
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	48 use	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 use	cc
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 use	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 use	cop
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 use	case
47	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	48 use	det
48	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	advcl
49	after	after	ADP	_	50 all	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 use	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	events = event		the crown of the head to the soles of the feet		at one	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme
2	grow	past	matters				to a high pitch	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	past	the Bachelor	Latin	the hope	then		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent latin=Patient
4	is	gerund	the Bachelor not said here				good property	tree rules
5	is	past	matter			after all	of no use	tree rules
6	crown			the head to the soles of the feet				nom crown «communication 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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