Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 85
And with this the conversation turned naturally to noblemen and commoners; from the manner in which the tutor spoke about the significance of being noble, it seemed almost as if he did not belong to a commoner's family.
Who acts: conversation, tutor, it · What happens: turn, speak, be, seem, not belong · To what, where: manner · 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 (conversation, tutor, it), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 turned | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 conversation | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 conversation | det |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 conversation | det |
| 5 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 6 turned | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 noblemen | case |
| 9 | noblemen | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 turned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 commoners | cc |
| 11 | commoners | commoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 noblemen | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 manner | punct |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 manner | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 manner | det |
| 15 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 spoke | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tutor | det |
| 19 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spoke | nsubj |
| 20 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 manner | acl:relcl |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 significance | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 significance | det |
| 23 | significance | significance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spoke | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 noble | case |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 noble | cop |
| 26 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 significance | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seemed | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 seemed | nsubj |
| 29 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 30 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 29 seemed | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 belong | mark |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 belong | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 belong | nsubj |
| 34 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 belong | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 belong | advmod |
| 36 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 seemed | xcomp |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 family | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 commoner | det |
| 39 | commoner | commoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 family | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 commoner | case |
| 41 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 belong | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | this conversation | the manner | to noblemen and commoners result; naturally property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent to nobleman=Result from manner=Initial_State | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the tutor | the manner | about the significance | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about significance=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | noble property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | it | almost property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | not belong a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | tutor | to a commoner's family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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