Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 67

Never had his age, with which, however, he was always grumbling, seemed so miserable as on this evening.

Who acts: unintelligible, grumbling · What happens: not have, grumble, seem · To what, where: age

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 (unintelligible, grumbling), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 age	nmod:poss
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 which	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	16 seemed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 however	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grumbling	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grumbling	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 grumbling	advmod
14	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 seemed	csubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grumbling	punct
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 miserable	advmod
18	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seemed	xcomp
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 evening	case
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 evening	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 evening	det
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 miserable	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not have	past		unintelligible's age		tree rules
2	grumble speech: other	past · progressive	unintelligible		always property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	grumbling		however, miserable property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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