Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 10

Besides, they could not imagine exactly how it felt to be boiled and placed on a silver dish; but no doubt it was something very fine and highly genteel.

Who acts: snails, place, doubt · What happens: not imagine, feel, boil, place, be · To what, where: silver dish, something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snails, place, doubt), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	6 imagine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 imagine	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 imagine	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 imagine	advmod
6	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 how	advmod
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 felt	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 imagine	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	13 boiled	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 boiled	aux:pass
13	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 felt	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 placed	cc
15	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 boiled	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 dish	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dish	det
18	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dish	compound
19	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 placed	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 imagine	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 something	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 doubt	det
23	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 something	nsubj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 something	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 something	cop
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 ;	conj
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 fine	advmod
28	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 something	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 genteel	cc
30	highly	highly	ADV	_	31 genteel	advmod
31	genteel	genteel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fine	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not imagine	could	snails = snail			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	feel	past	place			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	boil	to-infinitive · passive	place not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»
4	place	participle	place not said here		a silver dish	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dish=Destination
5	is a	past	no doubt	something		tree rules

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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