Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 8

He talked and told anecdotes, and every one listened to him with pleasure, not unmingled with awe; but none felt so much respect for him as did the elderly widow of a naval officer.

Who acts: Alfred, one, none · What happens: talk, tell, listen, not unmingl, feel, do · To what, where: anecdotes, Alfred, pleasure, much respect, elderly widow · 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 (Alfred, one, none), 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 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
5	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 listened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 listened	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 listened	nsubj
10	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 listened	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 pleasure	case
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 listened	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 unmingled	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 unmingled	advmod
17	unmingled	unmingl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 pleasure	acl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 awe	case
19	awe	awe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 unmingled	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 felt	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 felt	cc
22	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	23 felt	nsubj
23	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 respect	amod
26	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 felt	obj
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 did	mark
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 did	nsubj
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 did	advmod
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 felt	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 widow	det
32	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 widow	amod
33	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 did	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 officer	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 officer	det
36	naval	naval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 officer	amod
37	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 widow	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Alfred				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Alfred not said here		anecdotes		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anecdote=Recipient
3	listen	past	every one		Alfred	with pleasure	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
4	not unmingl	participle		pleasure not said here		with awe	tree rules
5	feel	past	none	much respect			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Theme
6	do	past	Alfred	the elderly widow of a naval officer			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Eventuality

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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