Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 71

Let Herr Fabs see how he would get in himself; but what he said of the performers, tragedians and comedians, singers and dancers, that was the most rascally of all.

Who acts: you, Fabs, Herr, that · What happens: let, see, get, say, be · To what, where: Herr · 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 (you, Fabs, Herr, that), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Herr	Herr	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
3	Fabs	fab	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 get	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 get	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Let	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 performers	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 performers	det
18	performers	performer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tragedians	punct
20	tragedians	tragedian	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 performers	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 comedians	cc
22	comedians	comedian	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 performers	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 singers	punct
24	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 comedians	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dancers	cc
26	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 comedians	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rascally	punct
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 rascally	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 rascally	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rascally	det
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 rascally	advmod
32	rascally	rascally	ADV	_	13 what	advmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 rascally	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	Herr		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herr=Theme
2	see	present	Fabs			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	get	would	Herr		in Herr	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	Herr		of the performers and tragedians and comedians and singers and dancers	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	that		of all; rascally property	tree rules

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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