Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 41
Judges of this kind were still to be found; and in Jutland, so far from the capital, and from the enlightened, well-meaning, head of the Government, the law was still very loosely administered sometimes--the smallest grievance Jurgen could expect was that his case should be delayed.
Who acts: meaning, smallest grievance · What happens: find, enlighten, be, expect · To what, where: Judges, law
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meaning, smallest grievance), 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 | Judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 kind | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Judges | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 found | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 found | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Jutland | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Jutland | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Jutland | case |
| 13 | Jutland | Jutland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 capital | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 far | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 capital | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 capital | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 capital | det |
| 19 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Jutland | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 delayed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 delayed | cc |
| 22 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 24 enlightened | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 enlightened | det |
| 24 | enlightened | enlighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 delayed | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 enlightened | punct |
| 26 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 28 meaning | discourse |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 well | punct |
| 28 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 delayed | nsubj:outer |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 head | punct |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 meaning | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Government | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Government | det |
| 33 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 head | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 administered | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 law | det |
| 36 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 administered | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 administered | cop |
| 38 | still | still | ADV | _ | 41 administered | advmod |
| 39 | very | very | ADV | _ | 40 loosely | advmod |
| 40 | loosely | loosely | ADV | _ | 41 administered | advmod |
| 41 | administered | administer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 meaning | acl |
| 42 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 41 administered | advmod |
| 43 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 49 expect | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 grievance | det |
| 45 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 46 grievance | amod |
| 46 | grievance | grievance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 expect | nsubj |
| 47 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 grievance | appos |
| 48 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 expect | aux |
| 49 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 administered | advcl |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 delayed | cop |
| 51 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 56 delayed | mark |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 case | nmod:poss |
| 53 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 delayed | nsubj |
| 54 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 delayed | aux |
| 55 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 56 delayed | cop |
| 56 | delayed | delayed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 found | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | Judges of this kind | still | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme jutland=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | enlighten | participle | meaning not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past · passive | meaning not said here | the law | still | administer, loosely, sometimes property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | expect | could | the smallest grievance | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | should · past | meaning | delayed 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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