Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 10

When people came home they used to say that it had been very romantic, and that really means something else than merely taking tea.

Who acts: people, clapper, that · What happens: come, use, say, be, mean, take · To what, where: something, tea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, clapper, that), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 used	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	xcomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 romantic	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 romantic	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 romantic	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 romantic	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 romantic	advmod
14	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 means	cc
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 means	nsubj
18	really	really	ADV	_	19 means	advmod
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 used	parataxis
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 means	obj
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 something	advmod
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 taking	mark
23	merely	merely	ADV	_	24 taking	advmod
24	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 something	acl
25	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taking	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	people		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	past	people			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	people not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past · perfect	clapper		romantic property	tree rules
5	mean	present	that	something		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
6	take	gerund		tea	merely property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Theme

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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