Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 48

First came a dozen drummers, who understood pretty well how to handle their instruments; then came halberdiers, and some armed with cross-bows.

Who acts: dozen drummers · What happens: come, understand, handle · To what, where: dozen drummers, instruments, halberdiers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dozen drummers), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drummers	det
4	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 drummers	nummod
5	drummers	drummer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 understood	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 understood	nsubj
8	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drummers	acl:relcl
9	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	10 well	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 handle	advmod
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 handle	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 handle	mark
13	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 understood	ccomp
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 instruments	nmod:poss
15	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 handle	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 came	advmod
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
19	halberdiers	halberdier	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 armed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 armed	cc
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 armed	det
23	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 cross-bows	case
25	cross-bows	cross-bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 armed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		a dozen drummers		first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drummer=Theme
2	understand	past	a dozen drummers				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	handle	to-infinitive		drummers's instruments		well property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme
4	come	past		halberdiers	then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location halberdier=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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