Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 23

This certainly was very true, she knew that; and therefore Babette preached him a little sermon, with which she was herself much amused, and during the preaching of which she looked quite lovely.

Who acts: This, violence, Babette · What happens: be, know, preach, look · To what, where: that, Rudy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, violence, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 true	nsubj
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 true	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 true	advmod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 true	conj
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 knew	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 preached	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 preached	cc
12	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	14 preached	advmod
13	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 preached	nsubj
14	preached	preach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 true	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 preached	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sermon	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sermon	amod
18	sermon	sermon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 preached	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 amused	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 amused	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 amused	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 amused	cop
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 amused	nsubj
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 amused	advmod
26	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 preached	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 preaching	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 preaching	cc
29	during	during	ADP	_	31 preaching	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 preaching	det
31	preaching	preaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 true	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 looked	obl
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 looked	nsubj
35	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 preaching	acl:relcl
36	quite	quite	ADV	_	37 lovely	advmod
37	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 looked	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	This		certainly, true property	tree rules
2	know	past	violence	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	preach speech: other	past	Babette	Rudy	therefore property	tree rules
4	is	past	violence		amuse property	tree rules
5	look	past	violence		of the preaching; lovely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent of which=Theme

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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