Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 105

*This relates to a book published some years ago in Germany, and said to be by Herschel, which contained a description of the moon and its inhabitants, written with such a semblance of truth that many were deceived by the imposture.

Who acts: This, Herschel, imposture · What happens: relate, publish, say, be, contain, write · To what, where: book, Germany, description, many, moon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Herschel, imposture), 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	*	*	PUNCT	_	3 relates	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 relates	nsubj
3	relates	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 book	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 relates	obl
7	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 book	acl
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 years	det
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ago	obl:unmarked
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 published	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Germany	case
12	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 published	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 relates	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	19 Herschel	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 Herschel	cop
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 Herschel	case
19	Herschel	Herschel	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 contained	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 contained	nsubj
22	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Herschel	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 description	det
24	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 contained	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 moon	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 moon	det
27	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 description	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 inhabitants	cc
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 inhabitants	nmod:poss
30	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 description	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 written	punct
32	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 description	acl
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 semblance	case
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	36 semblance	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 semblance	det
36	semblance	semblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 written	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 truth	case
38	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 semblance	nmod
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 deceived	obj
40	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 deceived	nsubj:pass
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 deceived	aux:pass
42	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 semblance	acl:relcl
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 imposture	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 imposture	det
45	imposture	imposture	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 deceived	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 relates	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	relate	present	This			to a book	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to book=Co-Theme
2	publish	participle		a book not said here	Germany	ago property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive				by Herschel	tree rules
5	contain	past	Herschel	a description of the moon and moon's inhabitants			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot description=Theme
6	write	participle		a description of the moon and moon's inhabitants not said here		with such semblance of truth	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	deceive	past · passive	the imposture	many			tree rules
8	describe			the moon			nom description «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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