Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 32

"That's a bad pastime," he said; "when the devil saw the Bible for the first time he wanted to produce a caricature in opposition to it, and invented card-playing."

Who acts: That, playing, devil, first time · What happens: be, say, see, want, produce, invent · To what, where: bad pastime, Bible, first time, caricature, devil, opposition · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, playing, devil, first time), 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	_	6 pastime	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 pastime	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pastime	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pastime	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pastime	amod
6	pastime	pastime	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pastime	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 pastime	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 devil	det
15	devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Bible	det
18	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 time	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wanted	nsubj
24	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 time	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 produce	mark
26	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wanted	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 caricature	det
28	caricature	caricature	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 produce	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 opposition	case
30	opposition	opposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 produce	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 produce	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 playing	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 playing	cc
35	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 card	amod
36	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 playing	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 card	punct
38	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 saw	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a bad pastime				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	playing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	past	the devil	the Bible			time	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bible=Stimulus
4	want in a quote	past	playing	the first time not said here				tree rules
5	produce not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the first time not said here	a caricature	devil	opposition		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caricature=Result
6	invent in a quote	participle						vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	play in a quote	gerund	the devil not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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