Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 55

"I don't care so very much about him," said Marie Grubbe; but she did not despise the grandest man of all the country, who sat by the king's side.

Who acts: Marie, Grubbe, grandest man · What happens: not care, say, not despise, sit · To what, where: grandest 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 (Marie, Grubbe, grandest 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 care	advmod
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	5 care	advmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 much	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Marie	flat
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 despise	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 despise	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 despise	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 despise	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 despise	advmod
21	despise	despise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	grandest	grand	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 despise	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 country	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 country	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 country	det
28	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 sat	nsubj
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	acl:relcl
32	by	by	ADP	_	36 side	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 king	det
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 side	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 king	case
36	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sat	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not care in a quote	present · do-support	Marie			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	Marie			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not despise	past · do-support	Grubbe	the grandest man of all country		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	sit	past	the grandest man of all country		by the king's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location

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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