Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 92

He could have measured himself against the deceased Mr. Brockenhuus, of Egeskov, of whom the people still talked.

Who acts: Marie, people · What happens: measure, decease, talk · To what, where: Marie

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 measured	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 measured	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 measured	aux
4	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 measured	obj
6	against	against	ADP	_	10 Brockenhuus	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Brockenhuus	det
8	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Brockenhuus	amod
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Brockenhuus	nmod:desc
10	Brockenhuus	Brockenhuus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 measured	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Egeskov	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Egeskov	case
13	Egeskov	Egeskov	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 measured	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 whom	punct
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 whom	case
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 measured	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 talked	nsubj
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 talked	advmod
20	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 whom	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 measured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	measure	could · perfect	Marie	Marie		against the deceased Brockenhuus Mr.; of Egeskov	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme himself=Value
2	decease	participle					vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	talk	past	the people		still		vn talk-37.5 «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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