Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 122
With the same patronizing smile he received Mr. George a few days afterwards.
Who acts: architect · What happens: receive · To what, where: George
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 (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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 smile | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smile | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 smile | amod |
| 4 | patronizing | patronizing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 smile | amod |
| 5 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 received | nsubj |
| 7 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 George | nmod:desc |
| 9 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 days | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 received | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 7 received | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | architect | George Mr. | day | with the same patronizing smile; afterwards property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent george=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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