Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 60

Then they returned to a nest, and there the quarrelling began afresh; for in hot countries people are almost all violent and passionate.

Who acts: gentlemen, quarrelling, people · What happens: return, begin, be, passionate

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentlemen, quarrelling, people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 returned	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 nest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nest	det
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 began	expl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 quarrelling	det
11	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
13	afresh	afresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 began	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 violent	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 countries	case
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 countries	case
17	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 countries	amod
18	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 violent	obl
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 violent	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 violent	cop
21	almost	almost	ADV	_	23 violent	advmod
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 violent	det
23	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 returned	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 passionate	cc
25	passionate	passionate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 violent	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	gentlemen = gentleman		then	to a nest result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to nest=Result
2	begin	past	the quarrelling	there		afresh property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	present	people			for hot countries; almost, violent property	tree rules
4	passionate	infinitive	people not said here				tree rules

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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