Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 167

The servants now came in to look after the dead emperor; when, lo! there he stood, and, to their astonishment, said, "Good morning."

Who acts: servants, emperor, astonishment · What happens: come in, look, stand, say, astonish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, emperor, astonishment), 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 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 emperor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 emperor	det
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 emperor	amod
11	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 there	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lo	punct
15	lo	lo	INTJ	_	17 there	discourse
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 lo	punct
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 stood	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 astonishment	punct
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 astonishment	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 astonishment	nmod:poss
25	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 astonishment	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stood	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 morning	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 morning	punct
30	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 morning	amod
31	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	come in	past	the servants		now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	the servants not said here		after the dead emperor	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	stand	past	emperor	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	servants's astonishment		morning	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	astonish		servants = servant			nom astonishment «feeling 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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