Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 56

There was neither cheese nor meat upon it, but she liked it as well as if it had been roast beef.

Who acts: cheese, wife, meat · What happens: be, like · To what, where: meat, roast beef

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 (cheese, wife, meat), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	4 cheese	cc:preconj
4	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 meat	cc
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheese	conj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 meat	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 liked	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 liked	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 liked	nsubj
12	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 liked	obj
14	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	22 beef	cc
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 as	fixed
16	as	as	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 beef	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 beef	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 beef	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 beef	cop
21	roast	roast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beef	amod
22	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 liked	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	cheese nor meat upon meat		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	like	past	wife	meat		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	meat	roast beef		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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