Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 101
The boys carried him into a very elegant room, where a stout, pleasant-looking lady received them, but she was not at all gratified to find that they had brought a lark--a common field-bird as she called it.
Who acts: boys, stout, lady · What happens: carry, look, receive, gratify, find, bring · To what, where: perfume, elegant room, birds, lady, lark · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, stout, lady), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 elegant | advmod |
| 8 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 room | amod |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 received | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 received | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stout | det |
| 13 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 received | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lady | punct |
| 15 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lady | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleasant | punct |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 lady | amod |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stout | conj |
| 19 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 room | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 received | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gratified | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 gratified | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gratified | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gratified | aux:pass |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 all | advmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 gratified | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | gratified | gratify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carried | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 find | mark |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 gratified | advcl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 brought | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 brought | aux |
| 34 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 find | ccomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 lark | det |
| 36 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 brought | obj |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 bird | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 bird | det |
| 39 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 bird | amod |
| 40 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bird | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 field | punct |
| 42 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lark | conj |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 called | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 called | nsubj |
| 45 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 bird | advcl |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 called | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the boys | perfume | a elegant room | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | receive | past | a stout and pleasant looking lady | birds = bird | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gratify | past · passive | lady | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | bring | past · perfect · passive | birds = bird | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination lark=Theme | |||||
| 7 | call | past | lady | lark | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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