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

But when the watchman gave no reply, the merry roysterer, who was now returning home from a noisy drinking bout, took it into his head to try what a tweak of the nose would do, on which the supposed sleeper lost his balance, the body lay motionless, stretched out on the pavement: the man was dead.

Who acts: watchman, merry roysterer, tweak, supposed sleeper, man, passer · What happens: give, return, take, try, do, suppose · To what, where: reply, noisy drinking bout, roysterer, head, balance, pavement

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 (watchman, merry roysterer, tweak, supposed sleeper), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gave	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 watchman	det
4	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	advcl
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 reply	det
7	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roysterer	det
10	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 roysterer	amod
11	roysterer	roysterer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 returning	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 returning	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 returning	aux
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 returning	advmod
16	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 roysterer	acl
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 returning	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	22 bout	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bout	det
20	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bout	amod
21	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bout	compound
22	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 returning	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 try	mark
30	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 took	advcl
31	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	33 tweak	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tweak	det
33	tweak	tweak	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 do	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 nose	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 nose	det
36	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tweak	nmod
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 do	aux
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 try	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 lost	punct
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 lost	obl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sleeper	det
43	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 sleeper	amod
44	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lost	nsubj
45	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 do	conj
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 balance	nmod:poss
47	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lost	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 body	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 body	det
50	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 balance	conj
51	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 lost	advcl
52	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 lay	xcomp
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 stretched	punct
54	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 motionless	conj
55	out	out	ADP	_	54 stretched	compound:prt
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 pavement	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 pavement	det
58	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 stretched	obl
59	:	:	PUNCT	_	63 dead	punct
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 man	det
61	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 dead	nsubj
62	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 dead	cop
63	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 took	parataxis
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the watchman	no reply				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent reply=Recipient roysterer=Theme
2	return	past · progressive	the merry roysterer		a noisy drinking bout	now	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bout=Initial_Location
3	take	past		roysterer	passer's head			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination
4	try	to-infinitive						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do	would	what tweak of the nose					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	suppose	participle						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	lose	past	the supposed sleeper	passer's balance and the body				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality
8	lay	infinitive	the supposed sleeper not said here				motionless property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	stretch out	participle	the supposed sleeper not said here		the pavement			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	is	past	the man				dead property	tree rules
11	tweak			the nose				nom tweak «act transitive»: of=patient
12	balance		passer					nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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