Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 69
And the footmen and chambermaids also expressed their satisfaction, which is saying a great deal, for they are very difficult to please.
Who acts: footmen, satisfaction · What happens: express, say, be, please, satisfy · To what, where: satisfaction, great deal · 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 (footmen, satisfaction), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 expressed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 footmen | det |
| 3 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 expressed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 chambermaids | cc |
| 5 | chambermaids | chambermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 footmen | conj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 expressed | advmod |
| 7 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 satisfaction | nmod:poss |
| 9 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expressed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saying | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 saying | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 saying | aux |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 satisfaction | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 deal | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 deal | amod |
| 16 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saying | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 difficult | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 difficult | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 difficult | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 difficult | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 difficult | advmod |
| 22 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 expressed | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 please | mark |
| 24 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 difficult | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past | the footmen and chambermaids | footmen's satisfaction | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · progressive | footmen's satisfaction | a great deal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deal=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | footmen = footman | difficult property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | please | to-infinitive | footmen = footman not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | satisfy | footmen = footman | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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