Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 5

All descriptions of people visited at the merchant's house, well born, as well as intellectual, and some who possessed neither of these recommendations.

Who acts: descriptions, some · What happens: visit, bear, possess, describe · To what, where: house, neither, people

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (descriptions, some), 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	2 descriptions	det
2	descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 visited	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 descriptions	nmod
5	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchant	det
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 merchant	case
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visited	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 born	punct
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 born	advmod
13	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 visited	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 intellectual	punct
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	18 intellectual	cc
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	as	as	ADP	_	15 as	fixed
18	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 born	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 possessed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 possessed	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 possessed	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 possessed	nsubj
23	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 visited	conj
24	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	23 possessed	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 recommendations	case
26	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 recommendations	det
27	recommendations	recommendation	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 neither	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	visit	past	all descriptions of people		the merchant's house		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bear	participle	all descriptions of people not said here			well property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	possess	past	some	neither			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot neither=Theme
4	describe			people			nom description «communication transitive»: of=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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