Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 36

"Engaged!" cried the shirt collar, "now there is no one left to propose to;" and then he pretended to despise all love-making.

Who acts: shirt collar, one, collar · What happens: engage, cry, be, leave, propose, pretend · To what, where: one, love making · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shirt collar, one, collar), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Engaged	punct
2	Engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cried	advcl
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Engaged	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Engaged	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 collar	det
7	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 collar	compound
8	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 collar	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 is	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 one	acl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 propose	mark
18	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 left	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 propose	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pretended	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 pretended	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pretended	nsubj
25	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 despise	mark
27	despise	despise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 pretended	xcomp
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 making	det
29	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 making	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 love	punct
31	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 despise	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	engage in a quote	participle	the shirt collar not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	the shirt collar				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be in a quote	present	no one		there	now	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave in a quote	participle		no one not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	propose in a quote	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	pretend	past	collar			then	tree rules
7	despise	to-infinitive	collar not said here	all love making			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer making=Stimulus

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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