Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 5

Yes, he was the child of respectable people, and there were even some who said that he was the son of a privy councillor, or that he might have been.

Who acts: Such, some · What happens: be, say · To what, where: child, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such, some), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 child	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 child	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 child	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 people	case
8	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 child	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 were	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 were	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 were	expl
13	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 child	parataxis
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 some	advmod
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 were	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 some	acl:relcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 son	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 son	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 son	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 son	det
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 councillor	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 councillor	det
25	privy	privy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 councillor	amod
26	councillor	councillor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 been	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 been	cc
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 been	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 been	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 been	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 been	aux
33	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Such	the child		of respectable people	tree rules
2	be	past	some		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a	past	Such	the son		of a privy councillor	tree rules
5	be	might · perfect	Such				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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