Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 30

By most poets what he had said would be considered common-place, or as the Germans call it, "insipid."

Who acts: grass, most poets, Germans · What happens: say, consider, call · To what, where: most poets, common place, place · 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 (grass, most poets, Germans), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 poets	case
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 poets	amod
3	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 considered	obl
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	aux
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 poets	acl:relcl
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 considered	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 considered	aux:pass
10	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 common	punct
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 considered	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 call	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 call	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 call	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Germans	det
18	Germans	german	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 call	nsubj
19	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 considered	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 call	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 insipid	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 insipid	punct
23	insipid	insipid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 call	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 considered	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect	grass	most poets		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	consider	would · passive	most poets	common place		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	call	present	the Germans	place	insipid obl	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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