Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 15

He stood so high that they were afraid he would not accept a verbal message.

Who acts: slit, things · What happens: stand, be, not accept · To what, where: verbal message

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slit, things), 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 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 high	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 afraid	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 afraid	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 afraid	cop
8	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 high	advcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 accept	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 accept	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 accept	advmod
12	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 afraid	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 message	det
14	verbal	verbal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 message	amod
15	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accept	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	slit		high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	things = thing		afraid property	tree rules
3	not accept	would	slit	a verbal message		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=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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