Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 9

The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; and soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over his stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had no clapper, and it was tarred over to preserve it from the rain.

Who acts: confectioner, Bell · What happens: come out, set up, come, hang, have, tar over · To what, where: booth, confectioner, bell, stand, clapper

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» 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 (confectioner, Bell), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 confectioner	det
2	confectioner	confectioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 confectioner	nmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 set	cc
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 set	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 booth	nmod:poss
13	booth	booth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 set	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 soon	cc
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 came	advmod
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 confectioner	det
21	confectioner	confectioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hung	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hung	nsubj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 confectioner	acl:relcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bell	det
26	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obj
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 stand	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 stand	nmod:poss
29	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sign	punct
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 sign	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 sign	det
33	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 ornament	cc
35	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sign	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 had	cc
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 clapper	det
41	clapper	clapper	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 tarred	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 tarred	cc
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 tarred	nsubj:pass
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 tarred	aux:pass
46	tarred	tar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	parataxis
47	over	over	ADV	_	46 tarred	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 preserve	mark
49	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 tarred	advcl
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 preserve	obj
51	from	from	ADP	_	53 rain	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 rain	det
53	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 preserve	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the confectioner of the town			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	set up	past	the confectioner of the town not said here	confectioner's booth	there		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient booth=Result
3	come	past		another confectioner		soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location confectioner=Theme
4	hang	past	another confectioner	a bell	confectioner's stand	as a sign or ornament	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bell=Theme over stand=Destination
5	have	past	Bell	no clapper			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clapper=Patient
6	tar over	past · passive		Bell		over property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
7	preserve	to-infinitive		Bell		from the rain	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from rain=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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