Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 70
They were not disturbed by his appearance, for they knew he was good and harmless among men.
Who acts: appearance, elves, man · What happens: not disturb, know, be · To what, where: elves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance, elves, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 disturbed | advmod |
| 4 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 appearance | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 7 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disturbed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 knew | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disturbed | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 good | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 good | cop |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 harmless | cc |
| 16 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 good | conj |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 harmless | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disturbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not disturb | past · passive | man's appearance | elves = elf | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | know | past | elves = elf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | man | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | man not said here | among men | 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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