Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 174

Such were Anthony's thoughts as he stood under the tree, and during many a long night as he lay in his lonely chamber in the wooden house in Hauschen Street, Copenhagen, in the foreign land to which the rich merchant of Bremen, his employer, had sent him on condition that he should never marry. "

Who acts: Such thoughts, many, number · What happens: be, stand, lie, send, not marry · To what, where: Such thoughts, tree, lonely chamber, rich merchant, condition

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 (Such thoughts, many, number), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thoughts	amod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thoughts	cop
3	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thoughts	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Anthony	case
5	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stood	nsubj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 stood	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lay	cc
14	during	during	ADP	_	15 many	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lay	nsubj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 night	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 night	amod
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 many	obl:unmarked
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 lay	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 chamber	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 chamber	nmod:poss
24	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 chamber	amod
25	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 house	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 house	det
28	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 house	amod
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chamber	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 Street	case
31	Hauschen	Hauschen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Street	compound
32	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 house	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Copenhagen	punct
34	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Street	appos
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 land	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 land	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 land	det
38	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 land	amod
39	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 sent	obl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 merchant	det
43	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 merchant	amod
44	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sent	nsubj:pass
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Bremen	case
46	Bremen	Bremen	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 merchant	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 employer	punct
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 employer	nmod:poss
49	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 merchant	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 merchant	punct
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 sent	aux
52	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 land	acl:relcl
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 sent	obj
54	on	on	ADP	_	55 condition	case
55	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sent	obl
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 marry	mark
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 marry	nsubj
58	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 marry	aux
59	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	60 marry	advmod
60	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 sent	advcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Anthony's Such thoughts			tree rules
2	stand	past	Anthony's Such thoughts		the tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
3	lie	past	many		number's lonely chamber in the wooden house in Hauschen Street	in the foreign land	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=Location
4	send	past · perfect · passive		the rich merchant of Bremen and number's employer	condition	to the foreign land	tree rules
5	not marry	should	number				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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