Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 4

When the patrol came up, all his comrades, who comprehended nothing of the whole affair, were seized with a dreadful fright, for dead he was, and he remained so.

Who acts: patrol, comrades · What happens: come up, comprehend, seize, be, remain · To what, where: nothing, comrades

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 (patrol, comrades), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 patrol	det
3	patrol	patrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seized	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 comrades	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 comrades	nmod:poss
9	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seized	nsubj:pass
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 comprehended	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 comprehended	nsubj
12	comprehended	comprehend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 comrades	acl:relcl
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 comprehended	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 affair	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 affair	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 affair	amod
17	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 comprehended	punct
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seized	aux:pass
20	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 fright	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fright	det
23	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fright	amod
24	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seized	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dead	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 dead	case
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seized	conj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 was	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dead	cop
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 remained	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 remained	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 remained	nsubj
33	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seized	conj
34	so	so	ADV	_	33 remained	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the patrol			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	comprehend	past	patrol's comrades	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	seize	past · passive		patrol's comrades	with a dreadful fright	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past			dead property	tree rules
5	remain	past	patrol			vn exist-47.1 «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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