Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 62

Alas!” sighed he, “I know one in which all is stately; but there sits already a spruce young shopman, which is the only thing that's amiss in the whole shop.

Who acts: I, spruce young shopman, only thing · What happens: sigh, know, be, sit · To what, where: beginning, one, spruce young shopman, only thing, whole shop · 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 (I, spruce young shopman, only thing), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 sighed	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
4	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sighed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sighed	parataxis
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 know	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 one	nmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 which	det:predet
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 all	conj
15	stately	stately	ADV	_	14 is	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sits	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 sits	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 sits	expl
19	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sighed	conj
20	already	already	ADV	_	24 shopman	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 shopman	det
22	spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shopman	compound
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shopman	amod
24	shopman	shopman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sits	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thing	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 thing	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 thing	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thing	det
29	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thing	amod
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shopman	appos
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 amiss	nsubj
32	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 amiss	cop
33	amiss	amiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thing	acl:relcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 shop	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 shop	det
36	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 shop	amod
37	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 amiss	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sigh in a quote	past		beginning			tree rules
2	know	present	I	one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	be	present	I not said here			stately property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	present		a spruce young shopman	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	a spruce young shopman	the only thing			tree rules
6	is	present	the only thing		the whole shop	amiss property	tree rules

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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