Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 68

What happens so often:--the Flower had made a gauk of him, that was a jest; the girl had made a fool of him, that was no jest, she had, during the summer, chosen another friend.

Who acts: that, flower, summer · What happens: happen, make, be, have, choose · To what, where: Flower, jest, girl, friend

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, flower, summer), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 often	advmod
4	often	often	ADV	_	2 happens	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Flower	det
8	Flower	Flower	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 happens	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 gauk	det
12	gauk	gauk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gauk	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 jest	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 jest	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 jest	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 jest	det
19	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gauk	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girl	det
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 happens	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fool	det
26	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fool	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 jest	punct
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 jest	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 jest	cop
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 jest	det
33	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 summer	punct
38	during	during	ADP	_	40 summer	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 summer	det
40	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 chosen	punct
42	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 summer	acl
43	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	44 friend	det
44	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 chosen	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present				often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past · perfect · passive		the Flower			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary gauk=Product
3	is a	past	that	a jest			tree rules
4	make	past · perfect · passive		the girl			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fool=Product
5	is a	past	that	no jest			tree rules
6	have	past	flower		summer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	choose	participle	the summer not said here	another friend			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme

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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