Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 31

They talked of balls and theatres, of diplomatic missions, of the government of empires and nations; and then they spoke of talent, native talent; and so the discourse turned upon the young architect.

Who acts: Flowers, discourse · What happens: talk, speak, turn · To what, where: young architect · 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 (Flowers, discourse), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 balls	case
4	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talked	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 theatres	cc
6	theatres	theatre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 balls	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 missions	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 missions	case
9	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 missions	amod
10	missions	mission	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 balls	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 government	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 government	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 government	det
14	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 empires	case
16	empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 government	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 nations	cc
18	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 empires	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 spoke	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spoke	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 spoke	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spoke	nsubj
23	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 talent	case
25	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spoke	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 talent	punct
27	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 talent	amod
28	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 talent	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 turned	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 turned	cc
31	so	so	ADV	_	34 turned	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 discourse	det
33	discourse	discourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 turned	nsubj
34	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 architect	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 architect	det
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 architect	amod
38	architect	architect	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 turned	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Flowers = flower			of balls and theatres and diplomatic missions; of the government of empires and nations	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	past	Flowers = flower		then	of talent and native talent	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	past	the discourse	the young architect			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon architect=Trajectory

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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