Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 95

So far all had passed off very well; but now one of the citizens began to speak of a terrible pestilence which had been raging a few years before, meaning the plague of 1484.

Who acts: one, terrible pestilence · What happens: pass off, begin, speak, rage, mean · To what, where: all, plague · 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 (one, terrible pestilence), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 passed	advmod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 passed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 passed	compound:prt
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 passed	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 began	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 citizens	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 citizens	det
15	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 speak	mark
18	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 pestilence	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pestilence	det
21	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pestilence	amod
22	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 speak	obl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 raging	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 raging	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 raging	aux
26	raging	rage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 pestilence	acl:relcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 years	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 years	amod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 raging	obj
30	before	before	ADV	_	26 raging	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 meaning	punct
32	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 raging	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 plague	det
34	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 meaning	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 1484	case
36	1484	1484	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 plague	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass off	past · perfect · passive		all		far, well property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	begin	past	one of the citizens				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	one of the citizens not said here			of a terrible pestilence	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rage	past · perfect · progressive	a terrible pestilence		year	before property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mean	gerund	a terrible pestilence not said here	the plague of 1484			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plague=Topic

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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