Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 34

Music sounded, a song was sung, and in one of the boats the man stood erect to whom homage was paid by the rest, a tall sturdy man, wrapped in a cloak.

Who acts: Music, man, rest · What happens: sound, sing, stand, pay, wrap · To what, where: song, homage, cloak

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Music, man, rest), 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	Music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounded	nsubj
2	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sung	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sung	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sung	aux:pass
7	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sounded	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stood	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 one	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 stood	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 boats	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boats	det
14	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sung	conj
18	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stood	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 whom	case
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 erect	obl
21	homage	homage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 paid	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 paid	aux:pass
23	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 whom	acl:relcl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 rest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rest	det
26	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 paid	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 man	det
29	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
30	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rest	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wrapped	punct
33	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 stood	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 cloak	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cloak	det
36	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wrapped	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sound	past	Music				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	past · passive		a song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	stand	past	the man			in one of the boats; erect property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location
4	pay	past · passive	the rest and a tall sturdy man	homage			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset
5	wrap	participle	the man not said here		a cloak		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloak=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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