Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 19
George was spoken well of in the cellar, and he was spoken well of in the first floor.
What happens: speak · To what, where: George, cellar, first floor · 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: 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 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoken | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoken | aux:pass |
| 3 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 spoken | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 well | fixed |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cellar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cellar | det |
| 8 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spoken | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spoken | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spoken | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spoken | aux:pass |
| 13 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spoken | parataxis |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 spoken | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 well | fixed |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 floor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floor | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 floor | amod |
| 19 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spoken | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · passive | George | the cellar | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · passive | George | the first floor | well property | 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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