Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 30

Such was the opinion and the speech of men; but not of those creatures who had been born here, and who built and dwelt here--of the rats, namely, who were squeaking to one another in the clefts of a crumbling wall, quite plainly, and in a way the Dryad understood well.

Who acts: Such, creatures, Dryad · What happens: be, bear, build, dwell, squeak, crumble · To what, where: opinion, creatures, one, way, men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such, creatures, Dryad), 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	Such	Such	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 opinion	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opinion	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 opinion	det
4	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 speech	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 speech	det
7	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opinion	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 men	case
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 speech	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 creatures	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 creatures	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 creatures	advmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 creatures	case
14	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 creatures	det
15	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 opinion	conj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 born	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 born	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 born	aux:pass
19	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 creatures	acl:relcl
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 born	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 built	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 built	cc
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 built	nsubj
24	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 creatures	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dwelt	cc
26	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 built	conj
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 dwelt	advmod
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 rats	punct
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 rats	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rats	det
31	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dwelt	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 namely	punct
33	namely	namely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rats	amod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 squeaking	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 squeaking	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 squeaking	aux
37	squeaking	squeak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 namely	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 one	case
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 squeaking	obl
40	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	39 one	fixed
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 clefts	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 clefts	det
43	clefts	cleft	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 one	nmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 wall	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 wall	det
46	crumbling	crumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 wall	amod
47	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 clefts	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 plainly	punct
49	quite	quite	ADV	_	50 plainly	advmod
50	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	37 squeaking	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 understood	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 understood	cc
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 way	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 way	det
55	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 understood	obl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 Dryad	det
57	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 understood	nsubj
58	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 built	conj
59	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	58 understood	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opinion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Such	the opinion and the speech of men but that creatures				tree rules
2	bear	past · perfect · passive		that creatures		here		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	build	past	that creatures					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	dwell	past	that creatures not said here			here	of the rats	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	squeak	past · progressive			one in the clefts of a crumbling wall		plainly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
6	crumble	gerund						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	understand	past	the Dryad			a way	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	speak			men				nom speech «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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