Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 52

All that was peculiar or disagreeable in a person he would imitate directly, and people said, "That boy will be very clever; he has a remarkable genius."

Who acts: glass, people, boy · What happens: be, imitate, say, have · To what, where: peculiar, remarkable genius · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glass, people, boy), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 peculiar	det:predet
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 peculiar	det
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 peculiar	cop
4	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 disagreeable	cc
6	disagreeable	disagreeable	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 peculiar	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 person	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 imitate	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 imitate	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 imitate	aux
12	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 peculiar	parataxis
13	directly	directly	ADV	_	12 imitate	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 imitate	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 clever	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 clever	punct
20	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clever	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 clever	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 clever	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 clever	advmod
25	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 has	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 has	nsubj
28	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 imitate	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 genius	det
30	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 genius	amod
31	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 has	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 peculiar	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 peculiar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		all peculiar or disagreeable		tree rules
2	imitate	would	glass		in a person; directly property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	future	that boy		clever property	tree rules
5	have in a quote	present	glass	a remarkable genius		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Patient

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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