Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 105

And as Angelo could make no sense of his friend's incoherent words, he forbore to question him further, and merely said,

Who acts: Angelo, friend · What happens: make, forbear, question, say, sense, word · To what, where: sense, Angelo, incoherent words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Angelo, friend), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 forbore	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 make	mark
3	Angelo	Angelo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 forbore	advcl
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 sense	det
7	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 words	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friend	nmod:poss
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 words	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 friend	case
12	incoherent	incoherent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 words	amod
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sense	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forbore	nsubj
16	forbore	forbear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 question	mark
18	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 forbore	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 question	obj
20	further	further	ADV	_	18 question	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
23	merely	merely	ADV	_	24 said	advmod
24	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 forbore	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	could	Angelo	no sense of Angelo's friend's incoherent words			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Product
2	forbear	past	Angelo				tree rules
3	question speech: other	to-infinitive	Angelo not said here		Angelo	further property	vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	participle				merely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	sense			Angelo's friend's incoherent words			nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	word		Angelo's friend				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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