Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 5

He had very pretty manners, and bowed in all directions, for he had young ladies' blood in his veins, and was accustomed to consort only with human beings; and that was of great consequence.

Who acts: King, that · What happens: have, bow, accustom, consort, be · To what, where: pretty manners, directions, blood, veins, human beings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, that), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 pretty	advmod
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 manners	amod
5	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bowed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bowed	cc
8	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 directions	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 directions	det
11	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bowed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 had	case
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bowed	parataxis
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ladies	amod
17	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 blood	nmod:poss
18	'	's	PART	_	17 ladies	case
19	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 veins	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 veins	nmod:poss
22	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 blood	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 accustomed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 accustomed	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 accustomed	aux:pass
26	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 had	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 consort	mark
28	consort	consort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 accustomed	xcomp
29	only	only	ADV	_	32 beings	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 beings	case
31	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 beings	amod
32	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 consort	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 consequence	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 consequence	cc
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 consequence	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 consequence	cop
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 consequence	case
38	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 consequence	amod
39	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	King	pretty manners			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient
2	bow	participle	King not said here		all directions		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in direction=Location
3	have	past	King	young ladies's blood	King's veins		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient
4	accustom	past · passive	King not said here				tree rules
5	consort	to-infinitive	King not said here	human beings			tree rules
6	is	past	that			of great consequence	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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