Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 107

The old man made jokes about Martin, and declared there must be some magic about that fellow, of whom the girls were so fond.

Who acts: old man, magic, girls · What happens: make, declare, be · To what, where: jokes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, magic, girls), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 Martin	case
7	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 jokes	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 declared	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 declared	cc
10	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 be	expl
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
13	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 declared	xcomp
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 magic	det
15	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 be	nsubj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 fellow	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 fellow	det
18	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 magic	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fond	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 whom	case
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fond	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 girls	det
23	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fond	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fond	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 fond	advmod
26	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fellow	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the old man	jokes		about Martin	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Product
2	declare speech: other	past	the old man not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	must	some magic about that fellow		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the girls			of that fellow; fond 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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