Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 21

Then he called one of his lords-in-waiting, who was so high-bred, that when any in an inferior rank to himself spoke to him, or asked him a question, he would answer, "Pooh," which means nothing.

Who acts: gardener, that, rank · What happens: call, wait, breed, speak, ask, answer · To what, where: gardener, question, Pooh, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener, that, rank), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 called	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 lords	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lords	nmod:poss
7	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 waiting	punct
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 waiting	mark
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 in	punct
11	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lords	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bred	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 bred	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bred	aux:pass
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 bred	advmod
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bred	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 high	punct
18	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 waiting	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spoke	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 spoke	nsubj
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 spoke	advmod
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 rank	det
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 rank	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rank	det
25	inferior	inferior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rank	amod
26	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spoke	nsubj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 himself	case
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 rank	nmod
29	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spoke	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 asked	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 asked	cc
34	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 asked	iobj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 question	det
37	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 asked	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 answer	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 answer	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 answer	aux
41	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Pooh	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 Pooh	punct
44	Pooh	Pooh	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 answer	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 means	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 means	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 means	nsubj
48	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	parataxis
49	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	48 means	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	gardener			then	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	gerund	gardener not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	breed	past · passive					tree rules
4	speak speech: other	past	that		gardener		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
5	ask speech: ask	past	gardener not said here	a question	gardener		tree rules
6	answer speech: assert	would	rank		Pooh		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pooh=Eventuality
7	mean	present		nothing			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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