Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 18

One of the young men, whose head, in a physical sense only, might be said to be of the thickest, had the watch that evening.

Who acts: One · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: head, physical sense, watch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (One), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:396): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 had	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 men	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sense	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 sense	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sense	det
12	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sense	amod
13	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
14	only	only	ADV	_	13 sense	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sense	punct
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 said	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	aux:pass
18	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 men	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	23 thickest	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 thickest	cop
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 thickest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thickest	det
23	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 said	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 watch	det
27	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 evening	det
29	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	might · passive		head	a physical sense			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in sense=Manner
2	is	to-infinitive					thick property	tree rules
3	have	past	One of the young men	the watch		evening		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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