Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 7

We were very sociable, and there was as much joking and fun as if we had been all of one family circle.

Who acts: We, much · What happens: be, joke

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, much), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sociable	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sociable	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 sociable	advmod
4	sociable	sociable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 was	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sociable	parataxis
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 was	nsubj
11	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 much	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fun	cc
13	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 joking	conj
14	as	as	ADP	_	19 all	case
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 all	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 all	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 all	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 all	cop
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 fun	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 circle	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 circle	nummod
22	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 circle	compound
23	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 all	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sociable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	We		sociable property	tree rules
2	be	past	much	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	joke speech: other	gerund	much not said here			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=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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