Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 16

It is old, very old, as we have already observed; it was there long before grandmother's grandmother was born; and yet it is but a child in comparison with the Au-mann, who is quite an old quiet personage, an oddity, with his hose of eel-skin, and his scaly Jacket with the yellow lilies for buttons, and a wreath of reed in his hair and seaweed in his beard; but he looks very pretty for all that.

Who acts: Bell, we, comparison, mann · What happens: be, observe, bear, look · To what, where: grandmother, child, comparison, old quiet personage

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bell, we, comparison, mann), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 old	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 old	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 old	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 observed	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 observed	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 observed	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 observed	aux
11	already	already	ADV	_	12 observed	advmod
12	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 old	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 there	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 there	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 there	cop
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 old	conj
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 born	advmod
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 born	mark
19	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grandmother	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 grandmother	case
21	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 born	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 born	aux:pass
23	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 there	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 child	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 child	cc
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	31 child	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 child	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 child	cop
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 child	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 child	det
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 old	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 comparison	case
33	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 child	nmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 Au	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Au	det
36	Au	Au	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 comparison	nmod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 mann	punct
38	mann	Mann	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Au	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 personage	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 personage	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 personage	cop
42	quite	quite	ADV	_	46 personage	advmod
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 personage	det
44	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 personage	amod
45	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 personage	amod
46	personage	personage	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 comparison	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 oddity	punct
48	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 oddity	det
49	oddity	oddity	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 personage	appos
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 hose	punct
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 hose	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 hose	nmod:poss
53	hose	hose	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 oddity	appos
54	of	of	ADP	_	57 skin	case
55	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 skin	compound
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 eel	punct
57	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 hose	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 Jacket	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 Jacket	cc
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 Jacket	nmod:poss
61	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 Jacket	amod
62	Jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 child	appos
63	with	with	ADP	_	66 lilies	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 lilies	det
65	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 lilies	amod
66	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 Jacket	nmod
67	for	for	ADP	_	68 buttons	case
68	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 lilies	nmod
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 wreath	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 wreath	cc
71	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 wreath	det
72	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 child	conj
73	of	of	ADP	_	74 reed	case
74	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 wreath	nmod
75	in	in	ADP	_	77 hair	case
76	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	77 hair	nmod:poss
77	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 wreath	nmod
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 seaweed	cc
79	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 hair	conj
80	in	in	ADP	_	82 beard	case
81	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	82 beard	nmod:poss
82	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 seaweed	nmod
83	;	;	PUNCT	_	86 looks	punct
84	but	but	CCONJ	_	86 looks	cc
85	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	86 looks	nsubj
86	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 old	parataxis
87	very	very	ADV	_	88 pretty	advmod
88	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	86 looks	advmod
89	for	for	ADP	_	90 all	case
90	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	86 looks	conj
91	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	90 all	obj
92	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bell				old property	tree rules
2	be		Bell not said here					tree rules
3	observe	present · perfect	we					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Bell				there property	tree rules
5	bear	past · passive		grandmother's grandmother			long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	is a	present	Bell	a child and a wreath of reed in mann's hair and seaweed in mann's beard	comparison with the Au and mann and a old quiet personage	yet		tree rules
7	is a	present	comparison with the Au and mann and a old quiet personage	a old quiet personage				tree rules
8	look	present	mann				pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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