Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 44

The diary was illustrated by the insertion of the visiting cards of the diplomatic circle and of the most noble families; and the General's lady was proud of it.

Who acts: insertion, lady · What happens: illustrate, be, insert · To what, where: diary, visiting cards

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 (insertion, lady), 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 diary	det
2	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illustrated	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 illustrated	aux:pass
4	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 insertion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 insertion	det
7	insertion	insertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illustrated	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 cards	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cards	det
10	visiting	visiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cards	compound
11	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 insertion	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 circle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 circle	det
14	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 circle	amod
15	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cards	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 families	cc
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 families	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 families	det
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 noble	advmod
20	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 families	amod
21	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 circle	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 proud	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 proud	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 General	det
25	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 lady	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 General	case
27	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 proud	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 proud	cop
29	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 illustrated	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 proud	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 illustrated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	illustrate	past · passive	the insertion of the visiting cards of the diplomatic circle and the noble families	the diary		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination
2	is	past	the General's lady		of diary; proud property	tree rules
3	insert			the visiting cards of the diplomatic circle and the noble families		nom insertion «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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