Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 2

That is to say, she was not charming at all as the word is usually understood; but she was good and kind, amusing in her way, and was just as any one ought to be whom people are to talk about and to laugh at.

Who acts: That, she, people · What happens: be, not charm, understand, laugh · To what, where: all, word, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, she, people), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 say	nsubj:outer
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 charming	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 charming	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 charming	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 charming	advmod
9	charming	charm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 say	ccomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 charming	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 understood	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 word	det
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 understood	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 understood	aux:pass
16	usually	usually	ADV	_	17 understood	advmod
17	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 charming	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 good	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 good	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 good	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 good	cop
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kind	cc
24	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 good	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 amusing	punct
26	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 good	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 way	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 way	nmod:poss
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 amusing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 one	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 one	cc
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 one	cop
33	just	just	ADV	_	36 one	advmod
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 one	case
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	conj
37	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 talk	aux
38	to	to	PART	_	44 talk	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 talk	cop
40	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 talk	obl
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 talk	nsubj
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 talk	cop
43	to	to	PART	_	44 talk	mark
44	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 one	acl:relcl
45	about	about	SCONJ	_	48 laugh	mark
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 laugh	cc
47	to	to	PART	_	48 laugh	mark
48	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 talk	advcl
49	at	at	ADP	_	48 laugh	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	present	That			say property	tree rules
2	not charm	past · progressive	she		all		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	understand	present · passive		the word		usually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
4	is	past	she			good property	tree rules
5	be		she not said here				tree rules
6	be		she not said here		her way		tree rules
7	is	past	That not said here			as any one	tree rules
8	is	ought	people			any one obl; talk property	tree rules
9	laugh	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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