Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 99

The room had some resemblance to the clay-floored halls in Holstein; a pretty numerous company, consisting of seamen, Copenhagen burghers, and a few scholars, sat here in deep converse over their pewter cans, and gave little heed to the person who entered.

Who acts: room, numerous company, few scholars, person · What happens: have, floor, consist, sit, give, enter · To what, where: resemblance, deep converse, little heed, person

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 (room, numerous company, few scholars, person), 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	2 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 resemblance	det
5	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 halls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 halls	det
8	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floored	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 clay	punct
10	floored	floor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 halls	amod
11	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Holstein	case
13	Holstein	Holstein	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 halls	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 company	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 company	det
16	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	17 numerous	advmod
17	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 company	amod
18	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 consisting	punct
20	consisting	consist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 company	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 seamen	case
22	seamen	seaman	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 consisting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 burghers	punct
24	Copenhagen	copenhagen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 burghers	compound
25	burghers	burgher	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seamen	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sat	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sat	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 scholars	det
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 scholars	amod
30	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sat	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 scholars	punct
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 sat	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 converse	case
35	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 converse	amod
36	converse	converse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	obl
37	over	over	ADP	_	40 cans	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 cans	nmod:poss
39	pewter	pewter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cans	compound
40	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sat	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 gave	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 gave	cc
43	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sat	conj
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 heed	amod
45	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 gave	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 person	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 person	det
48	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 gave	obl
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 entered	nsubj
50	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 person	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the room	some resemblance			to the floored halls in Holstein; a numerous company obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient
2	floor	participle						tree rules
3	consist	gerund	a numerous company not said here				of seamen and Copenhagen burghers	tree rules
4	sit	past	a few scholars			deep converse; here	over scholars's pewter cans	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in converse=Location
5	give	past	a few scholars not said here	little heed	the person			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to person=Recipient
6	enter	past	the person					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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