Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 32

The miller was rich, and, on that account, Babette stood very high, and was rather difficult to aspire to.

Who acts: miller, Babette · What happens: be, stand, aspire · To what, where: account

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 (miller, Babette), 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	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rich	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 and	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 account	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 account	det
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 account	punct
12	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	conj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 high	advmod
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 difficult	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 difficult	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 difficult	cop
19	rather	rather	ADV	_	20 difficult	advmod
20	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 aspire	mark
22	aspire	aspire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 difficult	csubj
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 aspire	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the miller		rich property	tree rules
2	stand	past	Babette	that account	high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on account=Location
3	is	past			difficult property	tree rules
4	aspire	to-infinitive				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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