Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 4
And pray what was his profession and his standing in respectable society?"
Who acts: temper · What happens: pray, be, stand · To what, where: profession, respectable society
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (temper), 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 | _ | 2 pray | cc |
| 2 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 profession | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 profession | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 profession | nmod:poss |
| 6 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pray | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 standing | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 standing | nmod:poss |
| 9 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 profession | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 society | case |
| 11 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 society | amod |
| 12 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | temper's profession and temper's standing in respectable society | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stand | temper | respectable society | nom standing «state intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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