Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 98

The music-master wrote a work, in twenty-five volumes, about the artificial bird, which was very learned and very long, and full of the most difficult Chinese words; yet all the people said they had read it, and understood it, for fear of being thought stupid and having their bodies trampled upon.

Who acts: music master, people, bodies · What happens: write, learn, say, read, understand, think · To what, where: work, five volumes, artificial bird, fear, bodies · 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 (music master, people, bodies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
2	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 master	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 music	punct
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	nsubj
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 work	det
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 volumes	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 volumes	case
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 five	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 twenty	punct
12	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 volumes	nummod
13	volumes	volume	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bird	punct
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 bird	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bird	det
17	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bird	amod
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 learned	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 learned	obj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 learned	aux:pass
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 learned	advmod
23	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 bird	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 long	cc
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 long	advmod
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 learned	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 full	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 full	cc
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wrote	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	35 words	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 words	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 difficult	advmod
33	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 words	amod
34	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 words	amod
35	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 full	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 said	punct
37	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	41 said	cc
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 people	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 people	det
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 said	nsubj
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wrote	parataxis
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 read	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 read	aux
44	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 said	ccomp
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 read	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 understood	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 understood	cc
48	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wrote	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 understood	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 fear	punct
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 fear	case
52	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 understood	obl
53	of	of	SCONJ	_	55 thought	mark
54	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 thought	aux:pass
55	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 fear	acl
56	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 thought	xcomp
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 having	cc
58	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 thought	conj
59	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 bodies	nmod:poss
60	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 having	obj
61	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 having	xcomp
62	upon	upon	ADP	_	61 trampled	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	the music master	a work	five volumes		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent work=Theme in volume=Destination
2	learn	past · passive		the artificial bird			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: which=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	all people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	read	past · perfect	people	work			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	understand	past	the music master not said here	work		for fear	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	think speech: other	gerund · passive		fear not said here		stupid property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»
7	have	gerund		people's bodies			tree rules
8	trample	participle	people's bodies not said here				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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