Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 7

A young merchant, a child of the East, as I could tell by his eye and his figure, rode pensively forward on his white snorting steed.

Who acts: I, young merchant, child · What happens: tell, ride, figure · To what, where: white snorting steed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, young merchant, child), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 merchant	amod
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rode	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 merchant	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 East	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 East	det
9	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 child	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 tell	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 merchant	parataxis
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 eye	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eye	nmod:poss
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 figure	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 figure	nmod:poss
20	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eye	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 merchant	punct
22	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	pensively	pensively	ADV	_	22 rode	advmod
24	forward	forward	ADV	_	22 rode	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	29 steed	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 steed	nmod:poss
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 steed	amod
28	snorting	snorting	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 steed	compound
29	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rode	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	I		by child's eye and child's figure	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ride	past	a young merchant and a child of the East	child's white snorting steed	forward, pensively property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	figure		child			nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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