Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 78

He was rich and learned, no doubt, but he always spoke slightingly of the sun and the pretty flowers, because he had never seen them.

Who acts: neighbor · What happens: be, learn, speak, not see · To what, where: doubt, sun, fields · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbor), 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	3 rich	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rich	cop
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 learned	cc
5	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rich	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 doubt	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 doubt	det
8	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spoke	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 spoke	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spoke	nsubj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 spoke	advmod
13	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rich	parataxis
14	slightingly	slightingly	ADV	_	17 sun	advmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sun	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spoke	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flowers	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flowers	det
20	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 flowers	amod
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sun	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 seen	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seen	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 seen	advmod
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 spoke	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seen	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	neighbor		rich property	tree rules
2	learn	past	neighbor not said here	no doubt		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past	neighbor	the sun and the pretty flowers	always property	tree rules
4	not see	past · perfect	neighbor	fields = field		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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