Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 111

It caused him quite as much anxiety as on the day when he had been called upon to appear before the mayor and the council at the town-hall.

Who acts: foundry · What happens: cause, call, appear · To what, where: much anxiety, gift, town hall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foundry), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	iobj
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 anxiety	amod
7	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caused	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caused	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 called	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 called	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 called	aux:pass
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 caused	parataxis
17	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	19 appear	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	19 appear	mark
19	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 called	xcomp
20	before	before	ADP	_	22 mayor	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mayor	det
22	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 appear	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 council	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 council	det
25	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mayor	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	30 hall	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hall	det
28	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hall	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 town	punct
30	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 appear	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	cause	past	foundry	much anxiety	gift		day	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer he=Theme anxiety=Eventuality
2	call	past · perfect · passive		gift				tree rules
3	appear	to-infinitive				the town hall	before the mayor and the council	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before mayor=Location

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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