Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 39
That was a very poor joke perpetrated by the gale, which seemed to have forgotten that a man who writes in a paper is not the kind of person to understand any liberty taken with him; for he is a king in his own newspaper, and likewise in his own opinion.
Who acts: That, gale, man · What happens: be, perpetrate, seem, forget, write, not be · To what, where: poor joke, paper, kind, liberty, own newspaper
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, gale, man), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 joke | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 joke | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 joke | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 poor | advmod |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 joke | amod |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | perpetrated | perpetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 joke | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 gale | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gale | det |
| 10 | gale | gale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perpetrated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gale | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 forgotten | mark |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forgotten | aux |
| 16 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 kind | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kind | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 writes | nsubj |
| 21 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 man | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 paper | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 paper | det |
| 24 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 writes | obl |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 kind | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 kind | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 kind | det |
| 28 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgotten | advcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 person | case |
| 30 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kind | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 understand | mark |
| 32 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forgotten | advcl |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 liberty | det |
| 34 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 understand | obj |
| 35 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 liberty | acl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 taken | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 king | punct |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 king | case |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 king | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 king | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 king | det |
| 43 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 joke | appos |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 newspaper | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 newspaper | nmod:poss |
| 46 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 newspaper | amod |
| 47 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 king | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 opinion | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 opinion | cc |
| 50 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 54 opinion | advmod |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 opinion | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 53 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 opinion | amod |
| 54 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 joke | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a poor joke and man's own opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perpetrate | participle | a poor joke and man's own opinion not said here | by the gale | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | the gale | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | forget | to-infinitive · perfect | the gale not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | write | present | a man | a paper | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in paper=Destination | ||||
| 6 | not is a | present | a man | the kind | of person | tree rules | |||
| 7 | understand | to-infinitive | the gale not said here | any liberty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer liberty=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | take | participle | any liberty not said here | with man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | is | present | man | man's own newspaper | for a king | tree rules | |||
| 10 | opine | man | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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