Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 19

They acknowledged also that some of the stories were very well told; but that the whole could have been managed differently. "

Who acts: thoughts · What happens: acknowledge, tell, manage · To what, where: some, whole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 acknowledged	nsubj
2	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 acknowledged	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 told	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 stories	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stories	det
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 some	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux:pass
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 well	advmod
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 told	advmod
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 acknowledged	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 managed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 managed	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 managed	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 whole	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 managed	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 managed	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 managed	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 managed	aux:pass
21	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 acknowledged	conj
22	differently	differently	ADV	_	21 managed	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 acknowledged	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 acknowledged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	acknowledge	past	thoughts = thought			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		some	well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	manage	could · perfect · passive		the whole	differently property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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