Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 52

He paused, gazed at the strange vehicle, and questioned the women as to the goal of their journey and the place whence they came.

Who acts: child, merchants · What happens: pause, gaze, question, come, journey · To what, where: women

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, merchants), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paused	nsubj
2	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gazed	punct
4	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paused	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 vehicle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vehicle	det
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vehicle	amod
8	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gazed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 questioned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 questioned	cc
11	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paused	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 women	det
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 questioned	obj
14	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	17 goal	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 goal	det
17	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 questioned	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 journey	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 journey	nmod:poss
20	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goal	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 place	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 place	det
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 journey	conj
24	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	26 came	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 place	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	pause	past	child			vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	gaze	past	child not said here		at the strange vehicle	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at vehicle=Theme
3	question speech: other	past	child not said here	the women	as the goal of merchants's journey and the place	vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient as goal=Attribute
4	come	past	merchants = merchant		whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	journey		merchants = merchant			nom journey «act 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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