Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 14

And George was fairly wild with delight yesterday at the good reception he met with at the Count's, and so am I to-day, after speaking to the great man.

Who acts: George, I · What happens: be, meet, speak · To what, where: good reception · 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 (George, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 wild	cc
2	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wild	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wild	cop
4	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	5 wild	advmod
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 delight	case
7	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wild	obl
8	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delight	nmod:unmarked
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 reception	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reception	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 reception	amod
12	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wild	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 met	nsubj
14	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 reception	acl:relcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 Count	case
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 Count	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Count	det
18	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 met	obl
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Count	case
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 day	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 day	cc
22	so	so	ADV	_	27 day	advmod
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 day	cop
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 day	nsubj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 day	case
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 to	punct
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wild	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 speaking	punct
29	after	after	SCONJ	_	30 speaking	mark
30	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 day	nmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 man	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 speaking	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wild	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	George		the good reception		with delight yesterday; fairly, wild property	tree rules
2	meet	past	George	the good reception not said here			with the Count	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent reception=Theme with count=Instrument
3	is	present	I			to day		tree rules
4	speak speech: other	gerund					to the great man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-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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