Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 115

People said of this fifth brother, "There is something very precise about him; he has a good head-piece, but he does nothing."

Who acts: People, something, youth · What happens: say, be, have, do · To what, where: fifth brother, good head piece, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, something, youth), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 brother	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 brother	det
5	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
9	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brother	acl:relcl
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 is	nsubj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 precise	advmod
13	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 something	amod
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 precise	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 piece	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 piece	amod
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 piece	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 head	punct
23	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 does	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 does	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 does	nsubj
27	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 does	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 does	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 does	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	People			of this fifth brother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	something	this fifth brother not said here	there		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme
3	have in a quote	present	youth	a good head piece			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
4	do in a quote	present	youth	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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