Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 144

He was as good-tempered as the third, but no poet, though he could be witty.

Who acts: man · What happens: temper, be · To what, where: man

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 (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tempered	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tempered	aux:pass
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 tempered	mark
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tempered	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
6	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 third	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 third	det
9	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 tempered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 poet	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 poet	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 poet	det
13	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tempered	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 witty	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 witty	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 witty	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 witty	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 witty	cop
19	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tempered	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tempered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	temper	past · passive		man				as the third; no poet obl	tree rules
2	is	could	man					witty 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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