Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 43

If the world were only a little more settled," said he: "but sometimes I'm obliged to be in a good humor, and sometimes a bad one, according to circumstances; now rain, now sunshine.

Who acts: world · What happens: be, say, oblige, accord · To what, where: fourth, good humor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 settled	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 world	det
3	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 settled	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 settled	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	9 settled	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 more	obl:unmarked
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 settled	advmod
9	settled	settled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 settled	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 settled	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 obliged	nsubj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 he	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 obliged	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 obliged	cc
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 obliged	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 obliged	nsubj
19	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 obliged	aux:pass
20	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	26 humor	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 humor	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 humor	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 humor	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 humor	amod
26	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 obliged	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 one	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 one	cc
29	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 one	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 one	det
31	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 one	amod
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 humor	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 circumstances	punct
34	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 circumstances	case
35	to	to	ADP	_	34 according	fixed
36	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 one	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 rain	punct
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 rain	advmod
39	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 humor	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sunshine	punct
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 sunshine	advmod
42	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 humor	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the world			settled property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	oblige	present · passive		fourth		sometimes property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	to-infinitive			a good humor and rain and sunshine		tree rules
5	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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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