Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 110

All besides was a scream, quite as unintelligible as the warbling of the canary-bird, excepting to the clerk, who being now a bird, could understand his comrades very well.

Who acts: besides, scream, clerk · What happens: be, except, understand · To what, where: scream, bird, comrades

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 (besides, scream, clerk), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 besides	det
2	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scream	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scream	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 scream	det
5	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 unintelligible	punct
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 unintelligible	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 unintelligible	advmod
9	unintelligible	unintelligible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scream	amod
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 warbling	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 warbling	det
12	warbling	warbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 unintelligible	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 bird	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
15	canary	canary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bird	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 canary	punct
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 warbling	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 excepting	punct
19	excepting	except	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 scream	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 clerk	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 clerk	det
22	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 excepting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bird	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 bird	nsubj
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 bird	cop
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 bird	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bird	det
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clerk	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 understand	punct
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 understand	aux
31	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 scream	parataxis
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 comrades	nmod:poss
33	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 understand	obj
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 well	advmod
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 understand	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 scream	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	all besides	a scream			tree rules
2	except	gerund	a scream not said here			to the clerk and a bird	tree rules
3	is a	gerund	the clerk and a bird	a bird	now		tree rules
4	understand	could		speech's comrades		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer comrade=Stimulus

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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