Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 101

They stared at each other, and when it became worse the bachelor spoke in Latin, in the hope of being better understood; but it was all useless.

Who acts: stories, remark, bachelor · What happens: stare, become, speak, be · To what, where: Latin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, remark, bachelor), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stared	nsubj
2	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 stared	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 became	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 became	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stared	parataxis
11	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 became	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bachelor	det
13	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spoke	nsubj
14	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 became	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Latin	case
16	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 spoke	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hope	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hope	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hope	det
20	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spoke	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 better	case
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 better	cop
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 hope	conj
24	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 better	cop
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 useless	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 useless	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 useless	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 useless	cop
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 useless	advmod
30	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stared	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stare	past	stories = story		at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
2	become	past	remark		bad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	speak speech: other	past	the bachelor	Latin	in the hope	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund	the bachelor not said here		good property	tree rules
5	is	past	remark		all, useless property	tree rules

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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