Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 86

Mr. George talked and told of his travels; and he could talk well, and was the life and soul of the table, though the old Count could have been it too.

Who acts: George · What happens: talk, tell, travel, be · To what, where: life · 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), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 George	nmod:desc
2	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	conj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 travels	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 travels	nmod:poss
8	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 talk	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 talk	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 talk	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 talk	aux
13	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 talked	parataxis
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 talk	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 life	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 life	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 life	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 life	det
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 soul	cc
21	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 life	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 soul	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 been	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 been	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Count	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Count	amod
29	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 been	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 been	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 been	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 talked	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 been	obj
34	too	too	ADV	_	32 been	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	past	George Mr.			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	George Mr. not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	travel	present				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	talk	could	George		well property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		the life and soul of the table		tree rules

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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