Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 11

Never before, he thought, had he been in such a coarse and ignorant company; one might almost fancy the people had turned heathens again.

Who acts: man, one, people · What happens: think, have, fancy, turn · To what, where: man, heathens · 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 (man, one, 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 before	advmod
2	before	before	ADV	_	5 thought	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 before	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	ccomp
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obj
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 had	aux
10	in	in	ADP	_	16 company	case
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 company	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 company	det
13	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 company	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ignorant	cc
15	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 coarse	conj
16	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 been	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 fancy	punct
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 fancy	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fancy	aux
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 fancy	advmod
21	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turned	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 turned	aux
25	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 fancy	ccomp
26	heathens	heathen	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turned	obj
27	again	again	ADV	_	25 turned	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	man			before property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	participle		man			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	fancy	might	one			almost property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	turn	past · perfect	the people	heathens	again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heathen=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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