Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 83

There was a great lamentation, for no one expected John to succeed better than those who had been suitors before.

Who acts: great lamentation, one, John · What happens: be, expect, succeed · To what, where: John, suitors

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 (great lamentation, one, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lamentation	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lamentation	amod
5	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 expected	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 expected	mark
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 expected	nsubj
10	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 expected	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 succeed	mark
13	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 expected	xcomp
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 succeed	xcomp
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 those	case
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 better	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	16 those	nmod
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 suitors	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 suitors	cop
20	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 who	nsubj
21	before	before	ADV	_	17 who	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a great lamentation		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	expect	past	no one	John			tree rules
3	succeed not said to happen	to-infinitive	John not said here			good property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past · perfect		suitors			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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