Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 15

Whatever object in the room he placed his tongue upon immediately received voice and speech, and was able to express its thoughts and feelings as readily as the lady herself could do.

Who acts: object, wife, tongue · What happens: place, receive, be, express, do, think · To what, where: Whatever, thoughts, lady

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (object, wife, tongue), 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	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 placed	obj
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 object	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 placed	nsubj
7	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tongue	nmod:poss
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 voice	case
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	12 received	advmod
12	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 voice	amod
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 speech	cc
15	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 voice	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 able	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 able	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 able	cop
19	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 placed	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 express	mark
21	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	xcomp
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 thoughts	nmod:poss
23	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 express	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 feelings	cc
25	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 thoughts	conj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 readily	advmod
27	readily	readily	ADV	_	21 express	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 lady	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lady	det
30	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 readily	obl
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 do	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 lady	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	place	past	object in the room	Whatever	upon received voice and speech	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme tongue=Destination
2	receive	participle			immediately property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	object in the room not said here		able property	tree rules
4	express	to-infinitive	object in the room not said here	tongue's thoughts and feelings	readily property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme
5	do	could	wife	the lady not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality
6	think		tongue			nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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