Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 84

Soon they began to like each other very much, for they were both good; but John found out that the stranger was much more clever than himself.

Who acts: Strangers, John, stranger · What happens: begin, like, be, find out · To what, where: each

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 (Strangers, John, stranger), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 like	mark
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 like	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 good	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 good	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 good	cop
14	both	both	ADV	_	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 like	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
18	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 found	compound:prt
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 clever	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stranger	det
23	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clever	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 clever	cop
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 clever	advmod
27	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 found	advcl
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 himself	case
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 clever	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Strangers = stranger		soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	like	to-infinitive	Strangers = stranger not said here	each		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot each=Theme
3	is	past	Strangers = stranger		both, good property	tree rules
4	find out	past	John			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the stranger		than John; clever 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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