Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 19

The lazzarone sleeps under the arcade, whose pavement in old times was to be trodden only by the feet of high nobility.

Who acts: lazzarone, feet · What happens: sleep, tread · To what, where: arcade

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lazzarone, feet), 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 lazzarone	det
2	lazzarone	lazzarone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	nsubj
3	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 arcade	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 arcade	det
6	arcade	arcade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pavement	punct
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 pavement	nmod:poss
9	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arcade	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 times	case
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 times	amod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 trodden	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 trodden	aux:pass
14	to	to	PART	_	16 trodden	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 trodden	aux:pass
16	trodden	tread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sleeps	advcl
17	only	only	ADV	_	20 feet	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 feet	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feet	det
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 trodden	obl:agent
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 nobility	case
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nobility	amod
23	nobility	nobility	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feet	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sleeps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	the lazzarone			the arcade and the arcade and the arcade's pavement's pavement			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tread	past · passive	the feet of high nobility				time		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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