Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 228

Taking one thing with another, I have lived more agreeably with him than with the man whom they called the most noble and gallant of the King's subjects.

Who acts: I, people · What happens: take, live, call · To what, where: one thing, man · 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 (I, people), 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	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 lived	advcl
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thing	nummod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 another	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 thing	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Taking	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 lived	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lived	aux
9	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 agreeably	advmod
11	agreeably	agreeably	ADV	_	9 lived	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lived	obl
14	than	than	ADP	_	17 man	case
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 man	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 called	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 called	nsubj
20	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 man	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 noble	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 noble	advmod
23	noble	noble	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 called	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gallant	cc
25	gallant	gallant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 noble	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 subjects	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 King	det
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 subjects	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 King	case
30	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gallant	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	I not said here	one thing	with another	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	live	present · perfect	I		with thing; than the man; agreeably property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
3	call	past	people	the man		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme noble=Result

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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