Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 55

But the professor did not approve of such nonsense, so he clapped his hands on the nettle to stop it.

Who acts: professor · What happens: not approve, clap, stop · To what, where: hands, nettle, nonsense

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (professor), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 approve	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 professor	det
3	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 approve	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 approve	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 approve	advmod
6	approve	approve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 nonsense	case
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nonsense	amod
9	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 approve	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 clapped	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 clapped	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 clapped	nsubj
13	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 approve	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 clapped	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 nettle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nettle	det
18	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clapped	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 stop	mark
20	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 clapped	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stop	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 approve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not approve	past · do-support	the professor			of such nonsense	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	clap	past	professor	professor's hands	the nettle		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
3	stop	to-infinitive	professor not said here	nonsense			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=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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