Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 124

The landlord was a rich man, and a good man too; but as passionate as if he had been made of pepper and snuff.

Who acts: landlord · What happens: be, passionate, make · To what, where: rich man, Claus

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord), 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	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 man	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	appos
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 man	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 passionate	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 passionate	cc
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 passionate	advmod
16	passionate	passionate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 man	conj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 made	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 made	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 made	aux:pass
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 passionate	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 pepper	case
24	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 snuff	cc
26	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pepper	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the landlord	a rich man		tree rules
2	passionate	infinitive	the landlord not said here			tree rules
3	make	past · perfect · passive		Claus	of pepper and snuff	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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