Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 13

For the proprietor had really three sons, though nobody counted the third with his brothers, because he was not so learned as they, and indeed he was generally known as "Jack the Dullard."

Who acts: nobody · What happens: have, count, not learn, know · To what, where: three sons, third, chance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 proprietor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 proprietor	det
3	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 three	advmod
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sons	nummod
7	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 counted	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 counted	mark
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 counted	nsubj
11	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 third	det
13	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 counted	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 brothers	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 third	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 learned	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 learned	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 learned	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 learned	aux:pass
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 learned	advmod
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 learned	advmod
23	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 counted	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 they	case
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 learned	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 known	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 known	cc
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	32 known	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 known	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 known	aux:pass
31	generally	generally	ADV	_	32 known	advmod
32	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 learned	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 Jack	case
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Jack	punct
35	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 known	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Dullard	det
37	Dullard	Dullard	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Jack	appos
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past		three sons	for the proprietor	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	count	past	nobody	the third		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme
3	not learn	past · passive		chance	as sons = son	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	know	past · passive		chance	as Jack; generally, indeed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as jack=Attribute

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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