Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 9

“Here, sir!” said one of the men, who panting brought him a tremendous pile of papers.

Who acts: sir, men · What happens: say, pant, bring · To what, where: one, tremendous pile, sir · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sir, men), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
4	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 sir	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 sir	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 said	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 men	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brought	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 brought	nsubj
14	panting	pant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 brought	nsubj
15	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 men	acl:relcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 brought	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pile	det
18	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pile	amod
19	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brought	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 papers	case
21	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pile	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	sir	one of the men		tree rules
2	pant	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring	past	the men	a tremendous pile of papers	sir	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination pile=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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