Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 50

In some places the inscriptions were so malicious, that grandfather would not speak of them at all; but I saw that he was chuckling secretly, and there may have been some inaccuracy in his description, after all.

Who acts: grandfather, I · What happens: be, not speak, see, chuckle, describe · To what, where: places, all, inaccuracy, description · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (grandfather, I), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 places	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 places	det
3	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 malicious	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 inscriptions	det
5	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 places	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 malicious	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 malicious	advmod
8	malicious	malicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 speak	punct
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 grandfather	det
11	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 speak	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 speak	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 speak	advmod
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 malicious	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 speak	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 speak	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 malicious	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 chuckling	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 chuckling	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 chuckling	aux
26	chuckling	chuckle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 saw	ccomp
27	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	26 chuckling	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 inaccuracy	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 inaccuracy	cc
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 been	expl
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 been	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 been	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 inaccuracy	cop
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 inaccuracy	det
35	inaccuracy	inaccuracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 description	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 description	nmod:poss
38	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 inaccuracy	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 all	punct
40	after	after	ADP	_	41 all	case
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 saw	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 malicious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			some places and the inscriptions	malicious property	tree rules
2	not speak speech: other	would	that grandfather		all	of inscriptions = inscription	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	chuckle	past · progressive	grandfather			secretly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	participle		some inaccuracy	grandfather's description		tree rules
6	describe		grandfather				nom description «communication 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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