Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 108

A stout stately dame received them with a smile; but she expressed much dissatisfaction that a common field-bird, as she called the lark, should appear in such high society.

Who acts: stout stately dame, DAME · What happens: receive, express, call, appear · To what, where: schoolboys, much dissatisfaction, lark, such high society · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stout stately dame, DAME), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dame	det
2	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dame	amod
3	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dame	amod
4	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 received	nsubj
5	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 received	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 smile	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 smile	det
9	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 received	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 expressed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 expressed	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 expressed	nsubj
13	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 received	conj
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dissatisfaction	amod
15	dissatisfaction	dissatisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 expressed	obj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 bird	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bird	det
18	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bird	amod
19	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bird	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 field	punct
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dissatisfaction	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 called	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 called	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 called	nsubj
25	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 expressed	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lark	det
27	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 appear	punct
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 appear	aux
30	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 expressed	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 society	case
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 society	amod
33	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 society	amod
34	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 appear	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	a stout stately dame	schoolboys = schoolboy		with a smile	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	express	past	DAME	much dissatisfaction			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dissatisfaction=Theme
3	call	past	DAME	the lark			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lark=Recipient
4	appear	should	DAME not said here		such high society		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in society=Location

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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