Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 7

Among them was a beautiful little girl, who was terribly proud; but this had been taught her by the servants, and not by her parents, who were far too sensible people.

Who acts: descriptions, servants, parents · What happens: be, teach · To what, where: this, girl, sensible 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, servants, parents), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	7 girl	case
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 girl	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proud	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proud	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 proud	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 proud	cop
11	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	12 proud	advmod
12	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 taught	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 taught	cc
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 taught	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taught	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 taught	aux:pass
18	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 proud	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taught	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 servants	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 servants	det
22	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 taught	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 parents	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 parents	cc
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 parents	advmod
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 parents	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 parents	nmod:poss
28	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 proud	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 people	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 people	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 people	cop
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 people	advmod
33	too	too	ADV	_	34 sensible	advmod
34	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 people	amod
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 parents	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	descriptions = description			among a beautiful little girl	tree rules
2	is	past				proud, terribly property	tree rules
3	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive	the servants	this	girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient she=Topic
4	is a	past	girl's parents and sensible people	sensible people		far property	tree rules

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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