Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 7

It was certainly a very difficult name to pronounce, and there are very few who ever receive such a title, but then it seemed wonderful how he came to be carved at all; yet there he was, always looking at the table under the looking-glass, where stood a very pretty little shepherdess made of china.

Who acts: field, few, it, man · What happens: be, pronounce, receive, seem, come, carve · To what, where: difficult name, title, all, pretty little shepherdess

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 (field, few, it, man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 name	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 name	cop
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 name	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 name	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 difficult	advmod
6	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 name	amod
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pronounce	mark
9	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 name	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 are	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 are	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 are	expl
13	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 name	parataxis
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 few	advmod
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 are	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 receive	nsubj
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 receive	advmod
18	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 few	parataxis
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 title	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 title	det
21	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 receive	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 seemed	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 seemed	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 receive	parataxis
27	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 seemed	xcomp
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 came	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wonderful	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	33 carved	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 carved	aux:pass
33	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 came	advcl
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 carved	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 looking	punct
37	yet	yet	ADV	_	38 there	advmod
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 looking	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 looking	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 looking	aux
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 looking	punct
42	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	43 looking	advmod
43	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 are	conj
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 table	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 table	det
46	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 looking	obl
47	under	under	ADP	_	51 glass	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 glass	det
49	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 glass	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 looking	punct
51	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 looking	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 stood	punct
53	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	54 stood	advmod
54	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 looking	conj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 shepherdess	det
56	very	very	ADV	_	57 pretty	advmod
57	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 shepherdess	amod
58	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 shepherdess	amod
59	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 stood	obj
60	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 shepherdess	acl
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 china	case
62	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 made	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 name	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	field	a difficult name			certainly property	tree rules
2	pronounce	to-infinitive						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	be	present	few		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	receive	present		such title		ever		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme
5	seem	past	it			then	wonderful property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	carve	to-infinitive · passive	man not said here		all			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»
8	look	past · progressive	man		there		under the looking glass; at the table; always property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at table=Theme
9	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
10	stand	past	man not said here	a pretty little shepherdess				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherdess=Stimulus
11	make	participle		a pretty little shepherdess not said here			of china	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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