Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 10

That was terrible to hear, and he said it in such a tone of conviction; he described hell to them as a miserable hole where all the refuse of the world gathers.

Who acts: That, God, refuse · What happens: be, hear, say, describe, gather, intonate · To what, where: rest, tone, hell, propensities, conviction · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, God, refuse), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 terrible	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 terrible	cop
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 terrible	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 terrible	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 tone	case
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 tone	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tone	det
14	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 conviction	case
16	conviction	conviction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tone	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 described	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 described	nsubj
19	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
20	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 described	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 described	obl
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 hole	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hole	det
25	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hole	amod
26	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 described	obl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 gathers	advmod
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 refuse	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 refuse	det
30	refuse	refuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gathers	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 refuse	nmod
34	gathers	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hole	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 terrible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	That				terrible property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	That not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	God	rest		such tone of conviction		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in tone=Manner
4	describe	past	God	hell	propensities = propensity		as a miserable hole	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hell=Theme as hole=Attribute
5	gather	present	all refuse of the world					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	intonate			conviction				nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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