Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 54

Among the audience was the young man of the hospital, who seemed to have forgotten his adventure of the preceding night.

Who acts: young man, hospital · What happens: be, seem, forget, precede, adventure · To what, where: young man, adventure, preceding night

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 (young man, hospital), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 audience	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 audience	det
3	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hospital	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hospital	det
10	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 forgotten	mark
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 forgotten	aux
16	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 seemed	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 adventure	nmod:poss
18	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forgotten	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 night	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 night	det
21	preceding	precede	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 night	amod
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 adventure	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the young man	among the audience; of the hospital	tree rules
2	seem	past	the young man			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	forget	to-infinitive · perfect	the young man not said here	hospital's adventure of the preceding night		tree rules
4	precede	gerund				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	adventure		hospital	the preceding night		nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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