Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 64

It had something of the taste of seawater, certainly, although it had been drawn from the well outside.

Who acts: dress · What happens: have, draw, taste · To what, where: something, dress, seawater

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 (dress), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 had	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 taste	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 taste	det
6	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 seawater	case
8	seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taste	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 certainly	punct
10	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drawn	punct
12	although	although	SCONJ	_	16 drawn	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drawn	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drawn	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 drawn	aux:pass
16	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 outside	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 outside	det
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 outside	advmod
20	outside	outside	ADV	_	16 drawn	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	dress	something	certainly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	draw	past · perfect · passive		dress		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from outside=Initial_Location
3	taste			seawater		nom taste «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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