Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 110

There every acquaintance appears and speaks upon the stage, so entirely in character, and with the same tone of voice, that none of us, when awake, were able to imitate it.

Who acts: acquaintance · What happens: appear, speak, be, imitate, intonate · To what, where: acquaintance, voice · 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 (acquaintance), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 appears	expl
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 acquaintance	det
3	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appears	nsubj
4	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 speaks	cc
6	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 appears	conj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 stage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stage	det
9	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speaks	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 entirely	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 entirely	advmod
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	4 appears	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 character	case
14	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entirely	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tone	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tone	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 tone	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tone	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tone	amod
20	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appears	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 voice	case
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tone	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 none	punct
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 none	det
25	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	20 tone	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 none	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 awake	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 awake	advmod
30	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tone	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 able	punct
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 able	cop
33	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 appears	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 imitate	mark
35	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 able	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 imitate	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	present	every acquaintance		there	with the same tone of voice; entirely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	present	every acquaintance not said here			upon the stage	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	every acquaintance not said here			able property	tree rules
4	imitate	to-infinitive	every acquaintance not said here	acquaintance			vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	intonate			voice			nom tone «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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