Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 116

But the old Count--for there was an old Count there, who was still grander than the General, and had a castle of his own--said nothing at all; he heard that it had been designed and drawn by the porter's little son.

Who acts: old Count, General · What happens: be, have, say, hear, design, draw · To what, where: old Count, castle, nothing, all, Count · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Count, General), 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	_	11 Count	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Count	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Count	amod
4	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Count	nsubj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 was	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Count	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Count	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Count	amod
11	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 Count	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grander	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 grander	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grander	cop
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 grander	advmod
17	grander	grand	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 Count	parataxis
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 General	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 General	det
20	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 grander	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grander	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 castle	det
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 own	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 own	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 castle	nmod
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 had	conj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 said	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 nothing	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 heard	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 heard	nsubj
36	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Count	parataxis
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 designed	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 designed	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 designed	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 designed	aux:pass
41	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 heard	ccomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 drawn	cc
43	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 designed	conj
44	by	by	ADP	_	49 son	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 porter	det
46	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 son	nmod:poss
47	's	's	PART	_	46 porter	case
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 son	amod
49	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 drawn	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Count	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old Count	a old Count	there			tree rules
2	is	past	a old Count			still	than the General; grand property	tree rules
3	have	past	a old Count not said here	a castle of General's own				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	a old Count not said here	nothing	all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
5	hear	past	General					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	design	past · perfect · passive		Count				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
7	draw	participle					by the porter's little son	vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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