Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening, sentence 11

She nodded in a friendly manner to him and to the servants, and they carried her into the dark narrow street, into a little house, that was her dwelling.

Who acts: proprietor, servants, that · What happens: nod, carry, dwell · To what, where: staircase, friendly manner, proprietor, dark narrow street

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proprietor, servants, that), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nodded	nsubj
2	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 manner	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 manner	det
5	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 manner	amod
6	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nodded	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nodded	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 servants	cc
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 servants	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 servants	det
12	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 him	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 carried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 carried	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carried	nsubj
16	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nodded	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carried	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	22 street	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 street	det
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 street	amod
21	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 street	amod
22	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carried	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 house	punct
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 house	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 house	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 house	amod
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carried	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dwelling	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 dwelling	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dwelling	aux
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dwelling	nsubj
32	dwelling	dwell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 nodded	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	nod	past	proprietor		staircase	a friendly manner		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	carry	past	servants = servant	proprietor		the dark narrow street	into a little house	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	dwell	past · progressive	that					vn exist-47.1 «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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