Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 111

The man had come, and had spoken quite like a person in good society, and had made himself very agreeable, so that the General had often to repeat his "Charming!"

Who acts: man · What happens: come, speak, make, repeat · To what, where: man, Charming · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spoken	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spoken	cc
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spoken	aux
8	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 come	advcl
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 spoken	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 person	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoken	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 society	case
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 society	amod
15	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 person	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 come	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 made	obj
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 agreeable	advmod
22	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 made	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 repeat	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	31 repeat	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 General	det
27	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 repeat	aux
29	often	often	ADV	_	31 repeat	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 repeat	mark
31	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 Charming	nmod:poss
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 Charming	punct
34	Charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 repeat	obj
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 repeat	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 repeat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past · perfect	the man not said here		like a person in good society	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past · perfect	the man not said here	man	agreeable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product
4	repeat	past		General's Charming	often property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Eventuality

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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