Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 94

In the avenue he met two school-boys, who appeared to belong to a better class of society, but whose inferior abilities kept them in the lowest class at school.

Who acts: boy, two school boys, inferior abilities · What happens: meet, appear, belong, keep · To what, where: two school boys, avenue, birds, lowest class

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 (boy, two school boys, inferior abilities), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 avenue	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 avenue	det
3	avenue	avenue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 boys	nummod
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boys	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 school	punct
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 met	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 appeared	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 appeared	nsubj
12	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 boys	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 belong	mark
14	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 appeared	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 class	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 class	det
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 class	amod
18	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 belong	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 society	case
20	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 class	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 kept	cc
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	25 abilities	nmod:poss
24	inferior	inferior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 abilities	amod
25	abilities	ability	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 kept	nsubj
26	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 appeared	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kept	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 class	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 class	det
30	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 class	amod
31	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 school	case
33	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	boy	two school boys	the avenue		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Co-Agent
2	appear	past	two school boys				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	belong	to-infinitive	two school boys not said here			to a better class of society	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	keep	past	inferior abilities	birds = bird	the lowest class	at school	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in class=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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