Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 43

The spirit had come upon us all; the puppets had become distinguished actors--at least, so they said themselves--and I was their director.

Who acts: spirit, puppets, I · What happens: come, become, say, be · To what, where: distinguished actors, puppets, director · 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 (spirit, puppets, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spirit	det
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 us	nmod:unmarked
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 become	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 puppets	det
10	puppets	puppet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 become	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 become	aux
12	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 come	conj
13	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 actors	amod
14	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 become	xcomp
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 least	punct
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 least	case
17	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 actors	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 said	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 said	obj
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 director	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 director	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 director	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 director	cop
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 director	nmod:poss
28	director	director	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the spirit		upon us	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon we=Location
2	become	past · perfect	the puppets	distinguished actors		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	puppets = puppet	puppets = puppet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
4	is a	past	I	puppets's director		tree rules

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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