Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 54

It certainly could not be the Bishop; even though he was considered the most absent man in the whole kingdom, and people told the drollest anecdotes about him.

Who acts: possession, people · What happens: not be, consider, tell · To what, where: Bishop, drollest anecdotes · 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 (possession, people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Bishop	nsubj
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 Bishop	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 Bishop	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 Bishop	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 Bishop	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Bishop	det
7	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 considered	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	13 considered	advmod
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 considered	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 considered	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 considered	aux:pass
13	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Bishop	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 absent	advmod
16	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 considered	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 kingdom	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 kingdom	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kingdom	amod
21	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 considered	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 anecdotes	det
27	drollest	droll	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 anecdotes	amod
28	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 told	obj
29	about	about	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 anecdotes	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Bishop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	could	possession	the Bishop	certainly property	tree rules
2	consider	past · passive		Bishop		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
3	tell speech: assert	past	people	the drollest anecdotes	about Bishop	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anecdote=Recipient about he=Topic

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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