Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 5

Everything else that he said was as unintelligible to everybody as the chirping of the Canary, except to the clerk, who was now a bird too: he understood his companion perfectly.

Who acts: Parrot, Everything, clerk · What happens: say, be, understand · To what, where: bird, companion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parrot, Everything, clerk), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 unintelligible	nsubj
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 Everything	advmod
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 said	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Everything	advcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 unintelligible	cop
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 unintelligible	case
8	unintelligible	unintelligible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 everybody	case
10	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 unintelligible	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 chirping	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chirping	det
13	chirping	chirping	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 everybody	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Canary	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Canary	det
16	Canary	Canary	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 chirping	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 clerk	punct
18	except	except	ADP	_	21 clerk	case
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 clerk	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 clerk	det
21	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 everybody	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bird	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 bird	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bird	cop
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 bird	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bird	det
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clerk	conj
28	too	too	ADV	_	27 bird	advmod
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 understood	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 understood	nsubj
31	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 unintelligible	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 companion	nmod:poss
33	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 understood	obj
34	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	31 understood	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 unintelligible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Parrot				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Everything			to everybody; unintelligible property	tree rules
3	is a	past	the clerk and a bird	a bird	now		tree rules
4	understand	past	Parrot	Parrot's companion		perfectly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer companion=Stimulus

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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