Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 97

The war in 1490 was spoken of as quite recent.

What happens: speak · To what, where: war · 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: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 war	det
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 1490	case
4	1490	1490	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 war	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spoken	aux:pass
6	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 recent	case
8	as	as	ADV	_	10 recent	advmod
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 recent	advmod
10	recent	recent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spoken	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · passive		the war in 1490				of recent	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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