Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 51

A long time passed away, then the collar came into the rag chest at the paper mill; there was a large company of rags, the fine by themselves, and the coarse by themselves, just as it should be.

Who acts: collar, large company, company · What happens: pass away, come, be · To what, where: long time, rag chest

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (collar, large company, company), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl:unmarked
4	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 time	acl
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 passed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 came	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 collar	det
9	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 chest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chest	det
13	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chest	compound
14	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 mill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mill	det
17	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mill	compound
18	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chest	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 was	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 company	det
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 company	amod
24	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 was	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 rags	case
26	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 company	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fine	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fine	det
29	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 company	parataxis
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 themselves	case
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 fine	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 coarse	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 coarse	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 coarse	det
35	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	parataxis
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 themselves	case
37	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 coarse	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 be	punct
39	just	just	ADV	_	43 be	advmod
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 be	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 be	nsubj
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 be	aux
43	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 coarse	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	participle		a long time not said here			away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	come	past	the collar		the rag chest at the paper mill	then; time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chest=Initial_Location
3	be	past	a large company of rags		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be	should	company					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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