Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 171

She looked morose, and did not seem to care to talk; but this much was settled, that the student should board in her house for an indefinite time, while things looked so bad in Copenhagen.

Who acts: mother, student · What happens: look, not seem, care, talk, settle, board · To what, where: much, house, things

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, student), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	morose	morose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seem	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seem	cc
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seem	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 seem	advmod
8	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 care	mark
10	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seem	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 talk	mark
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 care	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 settled	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 settled	cc
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 much	det
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 settled	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 settled	aux:pass
18	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 looked	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 board	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 board	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 student	det
22	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 board	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 board	aux
24	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 settled	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 house	nmod:poss
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 board	nmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 time	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 time	det
30	indefinite	indefinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 time	amod
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 settled	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 things	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 things	case
34	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 settled	obl
35	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 things	acl
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 bad	advmod
37	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 looked	xcomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 Copenhagen	case
39	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 bad	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	mother				morose property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not seem	past · do-support	mother not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	care	to-infinitive	mother not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	talk	to-infinitive	mother not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	settle	past · passive		this much		time	while things	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
6	board	should	the student		mother's house			tree rules
7	look	participle		things not said here			bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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