Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 114
He was highly respected, and was received in the first circles.
What happens: respect, receive · To what, where: George, first circles
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 respected | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 respected | aux:pass |
| 3 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 4 respected | advmod |
| 4 | respected | respect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 received | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 received | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 received | aux:pass |
| 8 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 respected | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 circles | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 circles | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 circles | amod |
| 12 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 received | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 respected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | past · passive | George | highly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | receive | past · passive | the first circles | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: in circle=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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