Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 25

"'The whole world is but a series of miracles,' said the lecturer, 'but we are so accustomed to them that we call them everyday matters.'

Who acts: whole world, series, we · What happens: be, say, accustom, call, matter · To what, where: series, lecturer, we, miracles, sparks · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (whole world, series, we), 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	_	14 said	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 series	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 world	amod
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 series	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 series	cop
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 series	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 series	det
9	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 miracles	case
11	miracles	miracle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 series	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 series	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 series	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lecturer	det
16	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 accustomed	cc
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 accustomed	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 accustomed	aux:pass
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 accustomed	advmod
23	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 matters	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 accustomed	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 call	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 call	nsubj
28	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 matters	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 call	obj
30	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 call	xcomp
31	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 matters	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 matters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the whole world	a series		of miracles	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	a series	the lecturer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lecturer=Topic
3	accustom in a quote	present · passive		we	miracles = miracle		tree rules
4	call in a quote	present	we	sparks = spark		everyday property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	matter in a quote	present	a series not said here				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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