Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 144

That was something, and he was "something," for he had a list of titles before and after his name.

Who acts: That, street · What happens: be, have, list, name · To what, where: something, list, titles

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 (That, street), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 something	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 something	cop
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 something	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 something	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 something	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 something	cop
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 something	punct
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 something	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 had	case
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 something	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 list	det
16	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 titles	case
18	titles	title	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 list	nmod
19	before	before	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 name	cc
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 name	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 name	nmod:poss
23	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 before	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	something		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	street	something		tree rules
3	have	past	street	a list of titles	before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Patient
4	list			titles		nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	name		street			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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