Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 99

In a few seconds the watchman had done the fifty-two thousand of our miles up to the moon, which, as everyone knows, was formed out of matter much lighter than our earth; and is, so we should say, as soft as newly-fallen snow.

Who acts: everyone, we · What happens: do, know, form, matter, say, fall · To what, where: watchman, moon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, we), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 seconds	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 seconds	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seconds	amod
4	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 done	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watchman	det
6	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thousand	det
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 two	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fifty	punct
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 thousand	compound
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 done	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 miles	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 miles	nmod:poss
16	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thousand	nmod
17	up	up	ADV	_	20 moon	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 moon	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moon	det
20	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 miles	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 formed	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 formed	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 which	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 knows	mark
25	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 knows	nsubj
26	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 which	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 which	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 formed	aux:pass
29	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 moon	acl:relcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	32 matter	mark
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 matter	advmod
32	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 formed	advcl
33	much	much	ADV	_	34 lighter	advmod
34	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 matter	xcomp
35	than	than	ADP	_	37 earth	case
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 earth	nmod:poss
37	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lighter	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 is	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 is	cc
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux:pass
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 say	punct
42	so	so	ADV	_	45 say	advmod
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 say	nsubj
44	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 say	aux
45	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 done	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 soft	punct
47	as	as	ADP	_	48 soft	case
48	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 say	ccomp
49	as	as	ADP	_	53 snow	case
50	newly	newly	ADV	_	52 fallen	advmod
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 newly	punct
52	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 snow	amod
53	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 soft	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		the watchman	second	the two thousand of our miles to the moon obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	know	present	everyone				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	form	past · passive		the moon			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	matter	present				light property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	should	we				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	fall	participle				newly property	vn occur-48.3 «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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