Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 89

The healthiest of them resembled, to use an expression of Marryat's, “Hunger's eldest son when he had come of age”; the others were either blind, had withered legs and crept about on their hands, or withered arms and fingerless hands.

Who acts: healthiest, Hunger, others · What happens: resemble, use, come, be, wither, creep · To what, where: expression, legs, hands, arms

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 (healthiest, Hunger, others), 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	2 healthiest	det
2	healthiest	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 resembled	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 healthiest	obl
5	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 use	mark
8	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 resembled	ccomp
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 expression	det
10	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Marryat	case
12	Marryat	Marryat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 expression	nmod
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Marryat	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 son	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 son	punct
16	Hunger	Hunger	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 son	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Hunger	case
18	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 son	amod
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	vocative
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 come	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 use	advcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 age	case
25	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 blind	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 others	det
29	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 blind	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 blind	cop
31	either	either	CCONJ	_	32 blind	cc:preconj
32	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 resembled	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 withered	punct
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 withered	aux
35	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 blind	advcl
36	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 withered	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 crept	cc
38	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 resembled	conj
39	about	about	ADV	_	38 crept	advmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 hands	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hands	nmod:poss
42	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 crept	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 withered	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 withered	cc
45	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 resembled	conj
46	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 withered	obj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 hands	cc
48	fingerless	fingerless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 hands	amod
49	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 arms	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 resembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resemble	past	the healthiest					tree rules
2	use	to-infinitive	the healthiest not said here	a expression of Marryat			Hunger's eldest son vocative	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient
3	come in a quote	past · perfect	Hunger			of age		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of age=Initial_Location
4	is	past	the others				blind property	tree rules
5	wither	past · perfect	the others not said here	legs				tree rules
6	creep	past	the healthiest not said here		beggars's hands		about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory
7	wither	past	the healthiest not said here	arms and fingerless hands				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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