Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 11

He was, however, quite as clean and neat as any other china figure; he only represented a black chimney-sweep, and the china workers might just as well have made him a prince, had they felt inclined to do so.

Who acts: beard, workers · What happens: be, represent, make, have, feel, do · To what, where: black chimney sweep, china workers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beard, workers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clean	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 clean	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 clean	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 clean	punct
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 clean	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 clean	case
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 neat	cc
10	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clean	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	15 figure	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 figure	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 figure	amod
14	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 figure	compound
15	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 neat	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 represented	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 represented	nsubj
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 represented	advmod
19	represented	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clean	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sweep	det
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sweep	amod
22	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sweep	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 chimney	punct
24	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 represented	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 made	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 made	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 workers	det
28	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 workers	compound
29	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 made	nsubj:pass
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 made	aux
31	just	just	ADV	_	35 made	advmod
32	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	35 made	cc
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 as	fixed
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 made	aux
35	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 represented	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 made	obj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 prince	det
38	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 represented	conj
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 felt	nsubj
42	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 had	ccomp
43	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 felt	xcomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 do	mark
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 inclined	xcomp
46	so	so	ADV	_	45 do	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 clean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			clean, however property	tree rules
2	be				as any other china figure	tree rules
3	represent	past	beard	a black chimney sweep		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sweep=Theme
4	make	might · perfect · passive		the china workers		tree rules
5	have	past	beard not said here			tree rules
6	feel	past	workers = worker		inclined property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	do	to-infinitive	workers = worker not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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