Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 141

The rich miller was very much flattered at the thought that the young man, who was acknowledged to be the best shot, and was so praised by every one, should be from his own canton.

Who acts: one · What happens: flatter, acknowledge, be, praise · To what, where: rich miller, thought, young man, best shot, own canton

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miller	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 miller	amod
3	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flattered	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flattered	aux:pass
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 flattered	advmod
7	flattered	flatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 thought	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thought	det
10	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flattered	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 man	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 acknowledged	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 acknowledged	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 acknowledged	aux:pass
18	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 man	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	23 shot	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 shot	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shot	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 shot	amod
23	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 acknowledged	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 praised	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 praised	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 praised	aux:pass
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 praised	advmod
28	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 shot	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 one	case
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 praised	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 canton	punct
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 canton	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 canton	cop
35	from	from	ADP	_	38 canton	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 canton	nmod:poss
37	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 canton	amod
38	canton	canton	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 flattered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	flatter	past · passive		the rich miller	the thought	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	acknowledge	past · passive		the young man and man's own canton		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	is a	to-infinitive		the best shot		tree rules
4	praise	past · passive	every one			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	should			man's own canton	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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