Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 148

Let us be men now," said he, involuntarily imitating the parrot; and at the same moment he became a clerk again, only that he was sitting on the table. "

Who acts: man · What happens: let, be, say, imitate, become, sit · To what, where: us, men, parrot, clerk, table · 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 (man), 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	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 men	cop
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Let	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Let	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 imitating	punct
11	involuntarily	involuntarily	ADV	_	12 imitating	advmod
12	imitating	imitate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 parrot	det
14	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 imitating	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 became	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 became	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 moment	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moment	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 moment	amod
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 became	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 clerk	det
24	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 became	xcomp
25	again	again	ADV	_	22 became	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sitting	punct
27	only	only	ADV	_	31 sitting	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 sitting	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sitting	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sitting	aux
31	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 became	advcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 table	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 table	det
34	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sitting	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		us		now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	is a	infinitive		men				tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	imitate in a quote	gerund	man not said here	the parrot			involuntarily property	vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme
5	become in a quote	past	man	a clerk		again; moment		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	sit in a quote	past · progressive	man		the table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location

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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