Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 78

He spoke of farming, but what he said could scarcely be heard for the coughing and gasping of his neighbor.

Who acts: owner · What happens: speak, say, hear, cough · To what, where: neighbor · 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 (owner), 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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 farming	case
4	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 heard	nsubj:outer
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
11	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	13 heard	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 heard	aux:pass
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 spoke	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 coughing	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 coughing	det
16	coughing	coughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gasping	cc
18	gasping	gasping	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 coughing	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 neighbor	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 neighbor	nmod:poss
21	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 coughing	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	owner		of farming	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	owner			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hear	could · passive			for the coughing of owner's neighbor and gasping; scarcely property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	cough			owner's neighbor		nom coughing «state transitive»: of=patient

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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