Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 22

The young man answered considerately, as if the question had been a different one, "No; he does not come from a great family."

Who acts: young man, question, family · What happens: answer, be, not come · To what, where: different one, great family · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young man, question, family), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	considerately	considerately	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 one	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 one	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 question	det
10	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 one	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 one	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 one	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
18	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	23 come	discourse
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 come	advmod
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	parataxis
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 family	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 family	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 family	amod
27	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the young man			considerately property	tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the question	a different one			tree rules
3	not come in a quote	present · do-support	family		a great family		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from family=Initial_Location

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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