Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 174

They drank a mug of beer in the ferry-house, and used to converse with the student, for he was a clever young man, who knew his "Practica," as they called it; he could read Greek and Latin, and was well up in learned subjects.

Who acts: students, Frank, clever young man · What happens: drink, use, converse, be, know, call · To what, where: mug, clever young man, Practica, Greek, learned subjects · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (students, Frank, clever young 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mug	det
4	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 beer	case
6	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mug	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
9	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ferry	punct
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beer	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 used	cc
14	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 converse	mark
16	converse	converse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 used	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 student	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 student	det
19	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 converse	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 man	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 man	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 man	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 man	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
25	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 converse	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 man	acl:relcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 Practica	nmod:poss
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Practica	punct
33	Practica	Practica	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 knew	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Practica	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Practica	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 called	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 called	nsubj
38	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 knew	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 called	obj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 read	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 read	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 read	aux
43	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drank	parataxis
44	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 read	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 Latin	cc
46	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Greek	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 well	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 well	cc
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 well	aux:pass
50	well	well	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 read	conj
51	up	up	ADP	_	50 well	compound:prt
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 subjects	case
53	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 subjects	amod
54	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 well	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink	past	students = student	a mug of beer in the ferry house			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mug=Patient
2	use	past	students = student not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	converse speech: other	to-infinitive	students = student not said here			with the student	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with student=Co-Agent
4	is a	past	Frank	a clever young man			tree rules
5	know	past	a clever young man	Frank's Practica			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer practica=Stimulus
6	call	past	students = student	mug			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
7	read	could	Frank	Greek and Latin			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greek=Topic
8	well up	past · passive	Frank not said here		learned subjects		tree rules
9	learn	participle					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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