Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 1

*The watchmen in Germany, had formerly, and in some places they still carry with them, on their rounds at night, a sort of mace or club, known in ancient times by the above denomination.

Who acts: watchmen · What happens: have, carry, know, sort · To what, where: places, rounds, mace

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchmen), 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	_	3 watchmen	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 watchmen	det
3	watchmen	watchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Germany	case
5	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 watchmen	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 watchmen	punct
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 carry	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 carry	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 places	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 places	det
13	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 carry	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carry	nsubj
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 carry	advmod
16	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carry	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rounds	punct
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 rounds	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rounds	nmod:poss
22	rounds	round	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 carry	parataxis
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 night	case
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rounds	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sort	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sort	det
27	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 night	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 mace	case
29	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sort	nmod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 club	cc
31	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mace	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 known	punct
33	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 rounds	acl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 times	case
35	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 times	amod
36	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 known	obl
37	by	by	ADP	_	40 denomination	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 denomination	det
39	above	above	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 denomination	amod
40	denomination	denomination	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 known	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the watchmen in Germany				formerly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	carry	present	watchmen = watchman		some places	still	with places = place	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
3	know	participle		watchmen's rounds at night and a sort of mace or club not said here		time	by the above denomination	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	sort			mace or club				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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