Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 1

On board a steamer I once met an elderly man, with such a merry face that, if it was really an index of his mind, he must have been the happiest fellow in creation; and indeed he considered himself so, for I heard it from his own mouth.

Who acts: I, merry face, man · What happens: meet, be, have, consider, hear, mind · To what, where: elderly man, steamer, index, happiest fellow, creation, man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, merry face, 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 steamer	case
2	board	board	ADP	_	4 steamer	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 steamer	det
4	steamer	steamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 met	nsubj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 met	advmod
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 face	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 face	case
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 face	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 face	det
15	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 face	amod
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 index	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 that	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 index	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 index	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 index	cop
22	really	really	ADV	_	24 index	advmod
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 index	det
24	index	index	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 face	acl:relcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 mind	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mind	nmod:poss
27	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 index	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 index	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 must	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 index	acl:relcl
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 must	xcomp
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 fellow	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fellow	det
34	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 fellow	amod
35	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 creation	case
37	creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fellow	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 considered	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 considered	cc
40	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	42 considered	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 considered	nsubj
42	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 fellow	parataxis
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 considered	obj
44	so	so	ADV	_	42 considered	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 heard	punct
46	for	for	ADP	_	48 heard	case
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 heard	nsubj
48	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 considered	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 heard	obj
50	from	from	ADP	_	53 mouth	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 mouth	nmod:poss
52	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 mouth	amod
53	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 heard	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	I	a elderly man	a steamer	with such merry face; once property	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme with face=Instrument
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	such merry face	a index		of man's mind	tree rules
3	have	infinitive	such merry face not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	participle		the happiest fellow	creation		tree rules
5	consider	past	man	man		indeed property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute
6	hear	past	I	face	man's own mouth		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from mouth=Source
7	mind		man				nom mind «cognition 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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