Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 114

The Selenites* disputed variously about our earth, and expressed their doubts if it could be inhabited: the air, they said, must certainly be too dense to allow any rational dweller in the moon the necessary free respiration.

Who acts: Selenites · What happens: dispute, express, inhabit, say, be, allow · To what, where: air, doubts, spirit, rational dweller, 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 (Selenites), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Selenites	det
2	Selenites	Selenite	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 disputed	nsubj
3	*	*	PUNCT	_	4 disputed	punct
4	disputed	dispute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	variously	variously	ADV	_	4 disputed	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 earth	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 earth	nmod:poss
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disputed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 expressed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 expressed	cc
11	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disputed	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 doubts	nmod:poss
13	doubts	doubt	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 expressed	obj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 inhabited	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 inhabited	nsubj:pass
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 inhabited	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 inhabited	aux:pass
18	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 expressed	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 air	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disputed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disputed	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dense	punct
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 dense	aux
27	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	30 dense	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 dense	cop
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 dense	advmod
30	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 allow	mark
32	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 dense	advcl
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 dweller	det
34	rational	rational	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 dweller	amod
35	dweller	dweller	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 allow	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 moon	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 moon	det
38	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dweller	nmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 respiration	det
40	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 respiration	amod
41	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 respiration	amod
42	respiration	respiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 allow	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disputed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dispute	participle	the Selenites	the air		about our earth; variously property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about earth=Theme
2	express	past	the Selenites not said here	Selenites's doubts			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Theme
3	inhabit a condition, not said to happen	could · passive		spirit			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Selenites = selenite				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	must				certainly, dense property	tree rules
6	allow	to-infinitive		any rational dweller	the moon		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent dweller=Goal respiration=Theme
7	doubt		Selenites = selenite				nom doubt «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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