Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 26

"That was a strange jest," remarked the General's lady, when the Count had gone away.

Who acts: That, lady, Count · What happens: be, remark, go away · To what, where: strange jest · 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 (That, lady, Count), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 jest	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 jest	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jest	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jest	det
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jest	amod
6	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 remarked	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 remarked	punct
9	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 jest	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 General	det
11	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lady	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 General	case
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remarked	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 gone	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Count	det
17	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 gone	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gone	aux
19	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 jest	parataxis
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 gone	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 jest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	That	a strange jest		tree rules
2	remark speech: assert	participle	the General's lady			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go away	past · perfect	the Count		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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