Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 18

The foreign learned man considered this music very delightful; but perhaps he fancied it; for everything in these warm countries pleased him, excepting the heat of the sun. The foreign landlord said he did not know who had taken the opposite house--nobody was to be seen there; and as to the music, he thought it seemed very tedious, to him most uncommonly so.

Who acts: foreign, man, music, warm countries, it, sun. · What happens: learn, consider, fancy, except, say, not know · To what, where: music, door, heat, opposite house, nobody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreign, man, music, warm countries), 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	2 foreign	det
2	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 learned	nsubj
3	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 considered	nsubj
5	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	ccomp
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 music	det
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 considered	obj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 delightful	advmod
9	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 considered	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 fancied	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 fancied	cc
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 fancied	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fancied	nsubj
14	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fancied	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 everything	case
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	35 said	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 countries	case
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 countries	det
21	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 countries	amod
22	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 everything	nmod
23	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 countries	amod
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pleased	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 excepting	punct
26	excepting	except	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 countries	acl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 heat	det
28	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 excepting	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sun.	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sun.	det
31	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 heat	nmod
32	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 landlord	det
33	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 landlord	amod
34	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 excepting	obj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	parataxis
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 know	nsubj
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 know	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 know	advmod
39	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 said	ccomp
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 taken	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 taken	aux
42	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 know	ccomp
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 house	det
44	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 house	amod
45	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 taken	obj
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	51 seen	punct
47	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	51 seen	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 seen	aux:pass
49	to	to	PART	_	51 seen	mark
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 seen	aux:pass
51	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 know	conj
52	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 seen	advmod
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 thought	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 thought	cc
55	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	58 music	cc
56	to	to	ADP	_	55 as	fixed
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 music	det
58	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 thought	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 music	punct
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 thought	nsubj
61	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	parataxis
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 seemed	nsubj
63	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 thought	ccomp
64	very	very	ADV	_	65 tedious	advmod
65	tedious	tedious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 seemed	xcomp
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 him	punct
67	to	to	ADP	_	68 him	case
68	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 thought	ccomp
69	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	70 uncommonly	advmod
70	uncommonly	uncommonly	ADV	_	71 so	advmod
71	so	so	ADV	_	61 thought	advmod
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	past	the foreign				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	consider	past	man	this music		delightful property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent music=Attribute
3	fancy	past	music	door		perhaps property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	except	gerund	this warm countries not said here	the heat of the sun.			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past				for everything	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not know	past · do-support	music				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	take	past · perfect		the opposite house			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
8	see	past · passive		nobody	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
9	think speech: other	past	music	the music			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	seem	past	it			tedious property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
11	heat		the sun.				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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