Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 28

The nobleman went up stairs and down, through halls and passages; yet none of those whom he met had heard of the bird.

Who acts: nobleman, none · What happens: go up, meet, hear · To what, where: stairs

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 (nobleman, none), 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 nobleman	det
2	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 down	cc
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 stairs	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 halls	punct
9	through	through	ADP	_	10 halls	case
10	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stairs	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 passages	cc
12	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stairs	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
14	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 none	advmod
15	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	22 heard	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 those	case
17	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 none	nmod
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 met	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 met	nsubj
20	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 those	acl:relcl
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	aux
22	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bird	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bird	det
25	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go up	past	the nobleman	stairs and halls and passages		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	meet	past	nobleman			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent
3	hear	past · perfect	none		of the bird	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of bird=Stimulus

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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