Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 83
Several of the fishermen saw this, but Martin did not--he remained as obliging and talkative as ever, in fact he talked rather too much.
Who acts: Several fishermen, Martin, father · What happens: see, not do, remain, oblige, talk · To what, where: this, fact
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 (Several fishermen, Martin, father), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fishermen | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fishermen | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fishermen | det |
| 4 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 did | cc |
| 9 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 did | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 remained | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 remained | nsubj |
| 14 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 obliging | mark |
| 16 | obliging | oblige | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 remained | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 talkative | cc |
| 18 | talkative | talkative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 obliging | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 ever | case |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 talkative | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fact | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fact | case |
| 23 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 obliging | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 talked | nsubj |
| 25 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fact | acl:relcl |
| 26 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 talked | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Several fishermen | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not do | past | Martin | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | oblige | gerund | father not said here | fact | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | talk | past | father | fact not said here | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fact=Patient |
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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