Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 33
But he did not; and we talked it over in all manner of ways, yet could not agree on the subject.
Who acts: we · What happens: talk over, not agree · To what, where: life, manner
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 (we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:10302): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 did | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 talked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 talked | cc |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 talked | nsubj |
| 8 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 talked | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 talked | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 manner | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 manner | det |
| 13 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ways | case |
| 15 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 manner | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 agree | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 20 agree | cc |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 agree | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 agree | advmod |
| 20 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 talked | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 subject | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 subject | det |
| 23 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 agree | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk over | past | we | life | all manner of ways | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | not agree speech: agree | could | we not said here | on the subject | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on subject=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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