Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 113

Mamma-in-law acknowledged that Sophy was not only a clever housewife, but well-informed and accomplished, though that could hardly be expected in a person of her limited means.

Who acts: Mamma, Sophy, limited · What happens: acknowledge, not be, inform, accomplish, expect, mean · To what, where: clever housewife, that

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mamma, Sophy, limited), 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	Mamma	Mamma	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 acknowledged	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 law	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 in	punct
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mamma	appos
6	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 housewife	mark
8	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 housewife	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 housewife	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 housewife	advmod
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 housewife	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 housewife	det
13	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 housewife	amod
14	housewife	housewife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 acknowledged	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 informed	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 informed	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 informed	advmod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 well	punct
19	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 acknowledged	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 accomplished	cc
21	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 informed	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 expected	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 expected	mark
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 expected	nsubj:pass
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 expected	aux
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	28 expected	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 expected	aux:pass
28	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 informed	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 person	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 person	det
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 expected	obl
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 means	mark
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 means	nmod:poss
34	limited	limited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 means	nsubj
35	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 person	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 acknowledged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	acknowledge	past	Mamma			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past	Sophy	a clever housewife		tree rules
3	inform speech: other	participle			well property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	accomplish	participle				vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	expect	could · passive		that	in a person; hardly property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	mean	present	limited			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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