Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 103

The General and the General's lady talked to each other in their room about the porter's son--how he knew how to behave, and to express himself with the greatest propriety.

Who acts: General, George · What happens: talk, know, behave, express · To what, where: room, George · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General, George), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 General	det
2	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 talked	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lady	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 General	det
5	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lady	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 General	case
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 General	conj
8	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 each	case
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 talked	obl
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 room	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 room	nmod:poss
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talked	obl
15	about	about	ADP	_	19 son	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 porter	det
17	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 son	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 porter	case
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 room	nmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 knew	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 son	acl:relcl
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 behave	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 behave	mark
26	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 knew	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 express	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 express	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 express	mark
30	express	express	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 talked	parataxis
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 express	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 propriety	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 propriety	det
34	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 propriety	amod
35	propriety	propriety	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 express	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the General and the General's lady		General's room about the porter's son	to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent
2	know	past	George				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	behave	to-infinitive					vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	express	to-infinitive		George		with the greatest propriety	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme

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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