Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 29

Both of them were overflowing with happiness, and the miller was in the best of tempers, laughing and merry; he was a good, honest soul, and a kind father.

Who acts: Both, miller, Rudy · What happens: overflow, be, laugh · To what, where: good honest soul

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Both, miller, Rudy), 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	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 overflowing	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Both	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overflowing	aux
5	overflowing	overflow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 happiness	case
7	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overflowing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 best	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 best	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 miller	det
11	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 best	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 best	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 best	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 best	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 overflowing	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 tempers	case
17	tempers	temper	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 best	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laughing	punct
19	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 overflowing	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 merry	cc
21	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 laughing	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 soul	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 soul	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 soul	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 soul	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 soul	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct
28	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 soul	amod
29	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overflowing	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 father	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 father	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 father	det
33	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 father	amod
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 soul	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 overflowing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	overflow	past · progressive	Both		with happiness	tree rules
2	is	past	the miller		of tempers; good property	tree rules
3	laugh	gerund	Both not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	Rudy	a good honest soul and a kind father		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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