Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 73

However, John was not at all anxious about the result of his trial; on the contrary, he was very merry.

Who acts: John · What happens: not be, be, result, try · To what, where: all, trial

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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	However	however	ADV	_	8 anxious	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 anxious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 anxious	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 anxious	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 anxious	obl
8	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 result	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 result	det
11	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anxious	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 trial	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 trial	nmod:poss
14	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 result	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 contrary	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 contrary	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 contrary	det
18	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 anxious	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 merry	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 merry	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 merry	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 merry	advmod
23	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 contrary	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	John		all	about the result of John's trial; anxious, however property	tree rules
2	be		John not said here				tree rules
3	is	past	John			merry property	tree rules
4	result			John's trial			nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
5	try		John				nom trial «act 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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