Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 45

So he decided not to speak of it at all, which was a very sensible determination.

Who acts: music · What happens: decide, not speak, be · To what, where: all, sensible determination · 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 (music), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 decided	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 decided	nsubj
3	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 speak	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 decided	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 speak	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 speak	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 determination	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 determination	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 determination	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 determination	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 sensible	advmod
16	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 determination	amod
17	determination	determination	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speak	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	decide	past	music				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	music not said here		all	of story	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		a sensible determination			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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