Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 88

The old man now came with a drawer, in which there was much to be seen, both “tin boxes” and “balsam boxes,” old cards, so large and so gilded, such as one never sees them now.

Who acts: old man, both, balsam boxes · What happens: come, be, see, box, card, gild · To what, where: boxes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 man, both, balsam boxes), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 drawer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drawer	det
8	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 much	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 was	obl
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 much	cop
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 seen	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 seen	aux:pass
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 much	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 boxes	punct
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	22 boxes	nsubj
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 boxes	punct
21	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 boxes	compound
22	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seen	obl
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 boxes	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cards	cc
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 boxes	punct
26	balsam	balsam	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 boxes	compound
27	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cards	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 boxes	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 boxes	punct
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cards	amod
31	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seen	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 large	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 large	advmod
34	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 gilded	cc
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 gilded	advmod
37	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 large	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sees	punct
39	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	41 one	case
40	as	as	ADP	_	39 such	fixed
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 sees	obl
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 sees	advmod
43	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 gilded	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 sees	obj
45	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 sees	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the old man		now	with a drawer	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the old man not said here			much property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive · passive	the old man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
4	box in a quote		both				tree rules
5	card		balsam boxes				tree rules
6	gild	participle	the old man not said here				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
7	not see	present	the old man not said here	boxes = box	now	such one	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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