Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 57

The young man wandered up and down the narrow paths, as well as the prescribed limits would allow; the clock struck six; without was heard the horn of a post-boy.

Who acts: young man, prescribed limits, clock · What happens: wander up, prescribe, allow, strike, hear · To what, where: six, horn

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. 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, prescribed limits, clock), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 wandered	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 paths	cc
7	down	down	ADP	_	10 paths	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 paths	det
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 paths	amod
10	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wandered	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 allow	punct
12	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	19 allow	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 as	fixed
14	as	as	ADP	_	12 as	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 limits	det
16	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 limits	amod
17	limits	limit	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 allow	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 allow	aux
19	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wandered	parataxis
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 struck	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 clock	det
22	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 struck	nsubj
23	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	parataxis
24	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 struck	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 heard	punct
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	28 heard	mark
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 heard	aux:pass
28	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 struck	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horn	det
30	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heard	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 post-boy	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 post-boy	det
33	post-boy	post-boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 horn	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wander up	past	the young man		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	prescribe	participle			tree rules
3	allow	would	the prescribed limits		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	strike	past	the clock	six	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Patient
5	hear	past · passive	the clock not said here	the horn of a post-boy	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: horn=Stimulus

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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