Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 9

The German beer was very good, and there were many sorts--from Bremen, Prussia, and Brunswick--and quantities of all sorts of spices, saffron, aniseed, ginger, and especially pepper; indeed, pepper was almost the chief article sold here; so it happened at last that the German clerks in Denmark got their nickname of "pepper gentry."

Who acts: German beer, many sorts, pepper, it, German clerks, clerks · What happens: be, sell, happen, get, sort, nickname · To what, where: chief article, last, nickname, spices, pepper gentry

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (German beer, many sorts, pepper, it), 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	3 beer	det
2	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beer	amod
3	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 were	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 were	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 good	conj
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sorts	amod
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 were	nsubj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 Bremen	punct
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 Bremen	case
15	Bremen	Bremen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sorts	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Prussia	punct
17	Prussia	Prussia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Bremen	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Brunswick	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Brunswick	cc
20	Brunswick	Brunswick	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Bremen	conj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 quantities	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 quantities	cc
23	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sorts	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 sorts	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sorts	det
26	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 quantities	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 spices	case
28	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sorts	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saffron	punct
30	saffron	saffron	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sorts	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 aniseed	punct
32	aniseed	aniseed	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saffron	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ginger	punct
34	ginger	ginger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saffron	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pepper	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 pepper	cc
37	especially	especially	ADV	_	38 pepper	advmod
38	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sorts	conj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 article	punct
40	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	47 article	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 indeed	punct
42	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 article	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 article	cop
44	almost	almost	ADV	_	47 article	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 article	det
46	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 article	amod
47	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	parataxis
48	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 article	acl
49	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 sold	advmod
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 happened	punct
51	so	so	ADV	_	53 happened	advmod
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 happened	nsubj
53	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 good	conj
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 last	case
55	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 happened	obl
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 got	mark
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 clerks	det
58	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 clerks	amod
59	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 got	nsubj
60	in	in	ADP	_	61 Denmark	case
61	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 clerks	nmod
62	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 happened	advcl
63	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 nickname	nmod:poss
64	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 got	obj
65	of	of	ADP	_	68 gentry	case
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	68 gentry	punct
67	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 gentry	compound
68	gentry	gentry	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 nickname	nmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
70	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the German beer			good property	tree rules
2	be	past	many sorts from Bremen and Prussia and Brunswick and quantities of all sorts of spices and saffron and aniseed and ginger and pepper		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	pepper	the chief article		almost, indeed property	tree rules
4	sell	participle		the chief article not said here	here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	happen	past	it		last		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
6	get	past	the German clerks in Denmark	clerks's nickname of pepper gentry			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nickname=Stimulus
7	sort			spices			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	nickname		clerks = clerk	pepper gentry			nom nickname «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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