Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 82

But there was not much kernel to be seen; it was what we should call hollow or worm-eaten, and looked as if it had been filled with tobacco or rich black earth. "

Who acts: pocket, we · What happens: see, be, call, eat, fill · To what, where: pocket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pocket, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 looked	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kernel	amod
6	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 seen	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 seen	aux:pass
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 kernel	acl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 what	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	cop
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 was	obl
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 call	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 call	aux
16	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 what	acl:relcl
17	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 call	xcomp
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 eaten	cc
19	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eaten	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 worm	punct
21	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 hollow	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 filled	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 filled	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 filled	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 filled	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 filled	aux:pass
30	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 looked	advcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 tobacco	case
32	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 filled	obl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 earth	cc
34	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 earth	amod
35	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 earth	amod
36	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tobacco	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive · passive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
2	is a	past	pocket			tree rules
3	call	should	we		hollow property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	participle	we not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past			look property	tree rules
6	fill	past · perfect · passive		pocket	with tobacco or rich black earth	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tobacco=Instrument

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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