Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 89
That was a longer speech than the General was accustomed to make, and then he went back to his ruminations, and looked very aristocratic.
Who acts: That, General · What happens: be, accustom, make, go back, look, ruminate · To what, where: longer speech, General
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 (That, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 speech | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speech | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 speech | det |
| 4 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 speech | amod |
| 5 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 accustomed | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 General | det |
| 8 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 accustomed | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 10 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 speech | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 accustomed | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speech | parataxis |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ruminations | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ruminations | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ruminations | rumination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looked | cc |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 aristocratic | advmod |
| 26 | aristocratic | aristocratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 looked | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speech | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a longer speech | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accustom | past · passive | the General | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | go back | past | General | then | to General's ruminations result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to rumination=Result | |||
| 5 | look | past | General not said here | aristocratic property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | ruminate | General | nom rumination «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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