Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 115

Now that was not a very elegant expression, but it was his way, and we must take him as he was.

Who acts: that, nose, we, tumult · What happens: not be, be, take · To what, where: elegant expression, way, tumult

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, nose, we, tumult), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 expression	advmod
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 expression	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 expression	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 expression	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 expression	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 elegant	advmod
7	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 expression	amod
8	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 way	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 way	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 way	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expression	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 take	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 expression	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 was	nsubj
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 take	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 expression	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not is a	past	that	a elegant expression but tumult's way		now	tree rules
2	is a	past	nose	tumult's way			tree rules
3	take	must	we		tumult		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	be	past	tumult				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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