Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 160

He spoke of this pleasure so heartily that Babette could not resist giving his arm a slight squeeze; and so they walked on together, and talked and chatted like old acquaintances.

Who acts: Rudy, Babette, people · What happens: speak, not resist, give, walk, talk, chat · To what, where: arm · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rudy, Babette, people), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pleasure	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 pleasure	det
5	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 heartily	advmod
7	heartily	heartily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pleasure	amod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 resist	mark
9	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 resist	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 resist	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 resist	advmod
12	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 heartily	advcl
13	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 resist	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arm	nmod:poss
15	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 giving	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 squeeze	det
17	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 squeeze	amod
18	squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 giving	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 walked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 walked	cc
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 walked	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 walked	nsubj
23	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	parataxis
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 together	case
25	together	together	ADV	_	23 walked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 talked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 talked	cc
28	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 walked	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 chatted	cc
30	chatted	chat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 talked	conj
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 acquaintances	case
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 acquaintances	amod
33	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 chatted	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Rudy		of this pleasure	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not resist	could	Babette			tree rules
3	give	gerund	Babette not said here	Rudy's arm		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent arm=Recipient squeeze=Theme
4	walk	past	people			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on together=Trajectory
5	talk	participle	people not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	chat speech: other	participle	people not said here		like old acquaintances	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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