Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 4

German mercenaries, in the Neapolitan service, kept guard, played cards, and diced; and a troop of strangers from beyond the mountains came into the town, accompanied by a sentry.

Who acts: German mercenaries, troop · What happens: keep, play, dice, come, accompany · To what, where: cards, town

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (German mercenaries, troop), 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	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mercenaries	amod
2	mercenaries	mercenary	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 played	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 service	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 service	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 service	det
6	Neapolitan	Neapolitan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 service	compound
7	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mercenaries	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guard	punct
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 guard	amod
10	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mercenaries	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mercenaries	punct
12	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 played	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 diced	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 diced	cc
16	diced	dice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 played	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 troop	det
20	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 strangers	case
22	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 troop	nmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 mountains	case
24	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	26 mountains	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mountains	det
26	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 strangers	nmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 played	parataxis
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 town	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 town	det
30	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 accompanied	punct
32	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 came	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 sentry	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 sentry	det
35	sentry	sentry	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 accompanied	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	participle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	play	past	German mercenaries and the Neapolitan service and kept guard	cards			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme
3	dice	participle	German mercenaries and the Neapolitan service and kept guard not said here				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	come	past	a troop of strangers from the mountains		the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
5	accompany	participle	a troop of strangers from the mountains not said here			by a sentry	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by sentry=Destination

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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