Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 43

They never had a quarrel, but a person can be easily excited to quarrel when he is naturally hot tempered, for he often shows it in many ways; and this is just what Jurgen did one day when they fell out about the merest trifle.

Who acts: terms, person, this, Jurgen · What happens: not have, be, quarrel, temper, show, do · To what, where: quarrel, person

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 (terms, person, this, Jurgen), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 quarrel	det
5	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 excited	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 excited	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 excited	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 excited	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 excited	cop
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	13 excited	advmod
13	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 quarrel	mark
15	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 excited	xcomp
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 tempered	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tempered	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 tempered	aux:pass
19	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	21 tempered	advmod
20	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tempered	amod
21	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 quarrel	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shows	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 shows	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shows	nsubj
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 shows	advmod
26	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 tempered	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shows	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 ways	case
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ways	amod
30	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shows	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 what	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 what	cc
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 what	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 what	cop
35	just	just	ADV	_	36 what	advmod
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 had	parataxis
37	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 did	nsubj
38	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 what	acl:relcl
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 day	nummod
40	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 did	obl:unmarked
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 fell	advmod
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 fell	nsubj
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 did	advcl
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 fell	compound:prt
45	about	about	ADP	_	48 trifle	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 trifle	det
47	merest	mere	ADJ	Degree=Sup	48 trifle	amod
48	trifle	trifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fell	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	terms = term	a quarrel			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient
2	is	can	a person			easily, excited property	tree rules
3	quarrel	to-infinitive	a person not said here				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	temper	present · passive		person		naturally property	tree rules
5	show	present	person	quarrel		in many ways; often property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in way=Topic
6	is a	present	this				tree rules
7	do	past	Jurgen		day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	fall out	past	terms = term			about the merest trifle	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about trifle=Location

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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