Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 82

“What can be the reason for such a crowd close by the pigsty?” said the Emperor, who happened just then to step out on the balcony; he rubbed his eyes, and put on his spectacles.

Who acts: Emperor · What happens: be, say, happen, step out, rub, put · To what, where: reason, balcony, eyes, spectacles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 reason	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 reason	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 reason	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 reason	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reason	det
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 crowd	case
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 crowd	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crowd	det
10	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reason	nmod
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crowd	amod
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 pigsty	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pigsty	det
14	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 close	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reason	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 reason	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Emperor	det
19	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 happened	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 happened	nsubj
22	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Emperor	acl:relcl
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 then	advmod
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 step	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 step	mark
26	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 happened	ccomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 step	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 balcony	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 balcony	det
30	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 step	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 rubbed	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 rubbed	nsubj
33	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	parataxis
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eyes	nmod:poss
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rubbed	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 put	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 put	cc
38	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 rubbed	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 spectacles	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 spectacles	nmod:poss
41	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 put	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	can		the reason			for such crowd	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the Emperor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	happen	past	the Emperor					tree rules
4	step out	to-infinitive	the Emperor not said here		the balcony	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on balcony=Trajectory
5	rub	past	Emperor	Emperor's eyes				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
6	put	participle	Emperor not said here		Emperor's spectacles			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spectacle=Destination

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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