Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 5

It was splendid!" they said; but it was a little too strong for me, and besides, I was obliged to mount up on my visit to Ole.

Who acts: bit, children, my · What happens: be, say, oblige, mount up, visit · To what, where: children, visit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bit, children, my), 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	3 splendid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 splendid	cop
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 splendid	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 splendid	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 splendid	parataxis
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 strong	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 strong	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 strong	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 strong	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 strong	obl:unmarked
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 strong	advmod
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 strong	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 obliged	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 obliged	cc
20	besides	besides	INTJ	_	24 obliged	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 besides	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 obliged	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 obliged	aux:pass
24	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 mount	mark
26	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 obliged	xcomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 mount	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 visit	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 visit	nmod:poss
30	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mount	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 Ole	case
32	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 visit	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 splendid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	bit			splendid property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	children = child				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	bit			for children = child; a little obl:unmarked; strong property	tree rules
4	oblige in a quote	past · passive		children = child			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	mount up in a quote	to-infinitive			my visit to Ole		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on visit=Destination
6	visit in a quote		my			to Ole	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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