Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 121

"I suppose you are giving her the whole history of St. Peter's," said the General, as he passed by; and smiled, like the personification of patronage.

Who acts: I, you, architect · What happens: suppose, give, say, pass by, smile · To what, where: whole history, foot, General · 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 (I, you, architect), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 suppose	nsubj
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 giving	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 giving	aux
6	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 suppose	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 giving	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 history	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 history	amod
10	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giving	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Peter	case
12	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Peter	nmod:desc
13	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 history	nmod
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Peter	case
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suppose	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 General	det
19	General	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 passed	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 passed	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 passed	nsubj
23	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	23 passed	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 smiled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 smiled	cc
27	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suppose	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 personification	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 personification	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 personification	det
31	personification	personification	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 smiled	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 patronage	case
33	patronage	patronage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 personification	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	give in a quote	present · progressive	you	the whole history of Peter St.	foot		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient history=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the General			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent general=Topic
4	pass by	past	architect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	smile	past				like the personification of patronage	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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