Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 37

But when, on the other hand, the same interior scene remained through five acts, he used to pronounce it a sensible, well-written play, a resting play, which performed itself, without putting up scenes.

Who acts: Water, resting play · What happens: remain, use, pronounce, write, rest, perform · To what, where: same interior scene, five acts, much, scenes

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 (Water, resting play), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 when	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hand	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 when	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scene	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 scene	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 scene	amod
11	interior	interior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 scene	amod
12	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	appos
13	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 scene	acl
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 acts	case
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 acts	nummod
16	acts	act	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 remained	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 used	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 used	nsubj
19	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 scene	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pronounce	mark
21	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 used	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pronounce	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 play	det
24	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 play	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sensible	punct
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 written	advmod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 well	punct
28	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 play	amod
29	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pronounce	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 play	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 play	det
32	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 play	amod
33	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 play	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 performed	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 performed	nsubj
36	performed	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 play	acl:relcl
37	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 performed	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 putting	punct
39	without	without	SCONJ	_	40 putting	mark
40	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 performed	advcl
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 putting	compound:prt
42	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 putting	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 when	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remain	participle		the same interior scene not said here	five acts		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through act=Location
2	use	past	Water	the same interior scene not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent scene=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	pronounce	to-infinitive	Water not said here	much			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme play=Result
4	write	participle				well property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rest	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	perform	past	a resting play	much			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
7	put up	gerund	a resting play not said here	scenes			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent scene=Goal

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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