Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 99

But then he thought this was not a thing in which one must believe; for all that he was startled when soon afterwards the pretty little girl had to lie in bed, and the doctor's carriage stopped at the gate every day.

Who acts: moon, this, one, pretty little girl, carriage · What happens: think, not be, believe, startle, have, lie · To what, where: thing, moon, bed, gate · 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 (moon, this, one, pretty little girl), 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	_	4 thought	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 thing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 thing	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thing	det
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 believe	obl
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 believe	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 believe	aux
14	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thing	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 startled	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 startled	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 startled	det:predet
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 startled	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 startled	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 startled	aux:pass
21	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	conj
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 soon	advmod
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 afterwards	advmod
24	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	29 had	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 girl	det
26	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 girl	amod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 girl	amod
28	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 startled	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 lie	mark
31	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 bed	case
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lie	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stopped	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 stopped	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 doctor	det
37	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 carriage	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 doctor	case
39	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stopped	nsubj
40	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 gate	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 gate	det
43	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stopped	obl
44	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	45 day	det
45	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stopped	obl:unmarked
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	moon			then		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past	this	a thing				tree rules
3	believe	must	one		a thing			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	startle	past · passive		moon				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	have	past	the pretty little girl				afterwards property	tree rules
6	lie	to-infinitive	the pretty little girl not said here		bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
7	stop	past	the doctor's carriage		the gate	day		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location

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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