Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 81

Then not one stirred; they all remained quite still; yet, at the same time, there was not a single pot amongst them who had not a high opinion of himself, and of what he could do if he chose.

Who acts: things, single pot, door · What happens: not stir, remain, not be, have, do, choose · To what, where: one, single pot, high opinion, pot

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, single pot, door), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stirred	advmod
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stirred	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stirred	nsubj:pass
4	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 remained	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 remained	nsubj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 remained	advmod
8	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stirred	conj
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 still	advmod
10	still	still	ADV	_	8 remained	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 yet	punct
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 stirred	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pot	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 time	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pot	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 time	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pot	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 pot	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pot	det
23	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pot	amod
24	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stirred	parataxis
25	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pot	nmod
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pot	parataxis
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 opinion	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 opinion	det
31	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 opinion	amod
32	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 himself	case
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 opinion	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 do	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 do	cc
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 what	case
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 do	obj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 do	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 do	aux
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stirred	conj
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 chose	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 chose	nsubj
44	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 do	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stirred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not stir	participle · passive		one	then; yet		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	remain	past	things = thing		still	all property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a	past		a single pot	time	amongst things = thing	tree rules
4	have	past	a single pot	a high opinion of pot			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient
5	do	could	door				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	choose a condition, not said to happen	past	door				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	opine			pot			nom opinion «cognition 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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