Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 167

One of the branches of the tree had, however, been broken: mischievous hands must have done this in passing, for the tree now stood in a public thoroughfare. "

Who acts: One, tree · What happens: have, break, do, stand · To what, where: mischievous hands, passing, public thoroughfare

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, tree), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 had	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 branches	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 branches	det
4	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 branches	nmod
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 broken	punct
10	however	however	ADV	_	13 broken	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 however	punct
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 broken	aux:pass
13	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 had	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
15	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hands	amod
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 done	nsubj:pass
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 done	aux
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 had	conj
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 done	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 passing	case
22	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 done	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stood	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 stood	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stood	nsubj
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 stood	advmod
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 thoroughfare	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 thoroughfare	det
31	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thoroughfare	amod
32	thoroughfare	thoroughfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stood	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	One					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	break	participle · passive	One not said here				however property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»
3	do	must · perfect · passive		mischievous hands	passing			tree rules
4	stand	past	the tree		a public thoroughfare	now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thoroughfare=Location

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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