Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 91

In the upper classes one sees many touchingly beautiful traits; my own mother has told me of such, and I could mention several.

Who acts: one, I · What happens: see, tell, mention · To what, where: many beautiful traits, upper classes, own mother, me, several · 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 (one, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 classes	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 classes	det
3	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 classes	amod
4	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sees	obl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sees	nsubj
6	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 traits	amod
8	touchingly	touchingly	ADV	_	9 beautiful	advmod
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 traits	amod
10	traits	trait	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sees	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mother	amod
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj:pass
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sees	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 such	case
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 told	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mention	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 mention	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 mention	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 mention	aux
24	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	conj
25	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mention	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sees	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	one	many beautiful traits		the upper classes		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trait=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		my own mother	me		of such	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
3	mention speech: other	could	I	several				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent several=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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