Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 6
In a police-office, consequently, we find copying-clerks among many other scribes of various denominations, of which, it seems, our hero was one.
Who acts: we, it, hero · What happens: find, seem, be · To what, where: copying clerks, police office, one
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 (we, it, hero), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 office | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 office | det |
| 3 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 office | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 police | punct |
| 5 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 office | punct |
| 7 | consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 5 office | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 office | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | copying | copying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clerks | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 copying | punct |
| 13 | clerks | clerk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 find | obj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 scribes | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scribes | amod |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scribes | amod |
| 17 | scribes | scribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 find | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 denominations | case |
| 19 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 denominations | amod |
| 20 | denominations | denomination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scribes | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seems | punct |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 seems | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 which | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seems | nsubj |
| 26 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 one | punct |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hero | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 one | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 one | cop |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 seems | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | we | copying clerks | a police office | among many other scribes of various denominations | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clerk=Topic | ||
| 2 | seem | present | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | our hero | one | 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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