Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 10

Every morning there came an old fellow to him who put his rooms in order, and went on errands; otherwise, the old man in the plush breeches was quite alone in the old house.

Who acts: old fellow, old man · What happens: come, put, go, be · To what, where: rooms, order, errands, old house

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old fellow, old man), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fellow	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fellow	amod
7	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fellow	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 put	nsubj
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fellow	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 rooms	nmod:poss
13	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 order	case
15	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 errands	case
20	errands	errand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 went	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 alone	punct
22	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	33 alone	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 otherwise	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 alone	nsubj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 breeches	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 breeches	det
29	plush	plush	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 breeches	amod
30	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 man	nmod
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 alone	cop
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 alone	advmod
33	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 house	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 house	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 house	amod
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 alone	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a old fellow to man		there	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past	a old fellow to man	man's rooms	order			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent room=Theme in order=Destination
3	go	past	a old fellow to man not said here		errands			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location
4	is	past	the old man in the plush breeches		the old house		alone, otherwise property	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: «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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