Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 115

An old Count, belonging to one of the oldest families of the country, remained untouched in his place of honour; the flute was just, and it is one's duty to be so.

Who acts: old Count, flute · What happens: belong, remain, be · To what, where: one, old Count, place, duty

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Count, flute), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Count	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Count	amod
3	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remained	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 belonging	punct
5	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Count	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 belonging	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 families	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 families	det
10	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 families	amod
11	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 country	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 country	det
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 families	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 remained	punct
16	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	untouched	untouched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 remained	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 place	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 place	nmod:poss
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remained	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 honour	case
22	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 place	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 duty	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 flute	det
25	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 duty	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 duty	cop
27	just	just	ADV	_	34 duty	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 duty	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 duty	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 duty	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 duty	cop
32	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 duty	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 one	case
34	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remained	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	37 so	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 so	cop
37	so	so	ADV	_	34 duty	acl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	belong	gerund	a old Count not said here		one of the oldest families of the country			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	remain	participle · passive		a old Count		baron's place of honour	untouched property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	is a	past	the flute	one's duty				tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive					so property	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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