Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 1

One would have thought that something important was going on in the duck-pond, but it was nothing after all.

Who acts: something, pond · What happens: think, go on, be · To what, where: One, duck pond, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, pond), 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	One	one	PRON	PronType=Ind	4 thought	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	aux
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 going	nsubj
7	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 thought	ccomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 going	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 pond	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pond	det
13	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pond	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 duck	punct
15	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nothing	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 nothing	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 nothing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 nothing	cop
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 thought	conj
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 nothing	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	would · perfect · passive		One			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	go on	past · progressive	something		the duck pond		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pond=Location
3	is a	past	pond	nothing		after all	tree rules

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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