Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 103

So the copying-clerk came to Copenhagen as guest, or rather as prisoner in a family living in Gother Street.

Who acts: copying clerk, family · What happens: come, live · To what, where: Copenhagen, Gother Street

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (copying clerk, family), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clerk	det
3	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clerk	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 copying	punct
5	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Copenhagen	case
8	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 guest	case
10	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 prisoner	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 prisoner	cc
13	rather	rather	ADV	_	15 prisoner	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 prisoner	case
15	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 family	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 family	det
18	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 prisoner	nmod
19	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 family	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 Street	case
21	Gother	Gother	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Street	compound
22	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 living	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the copying clerk			Copenhagen		as guest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to copenhagen=Initial_Location
2	live	gerund	a family not said here			Gother Street			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location

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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