Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 8

The rich merchants in Bremen and Lubeck, who carried on trade in Copenhagen, did not reside in the town themselves, but sent their clerks, who dwelt in the wooden booths in the Hauschen street, and sold beer and spices.

Who acts: rich merchants, clerks · What happens: carry, not reside, send, dwell, sell · To what, where: trade, town, clerks, wooden booths, beer

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 (rich merchants, clerks), 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	3 merchants	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 merchants	amod
3	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carried	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Bremen	case
5	Bremen	Bremen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 merchants	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Lubeck	cc
7	Lubeck	Lubeck	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Bremen	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 carried	nsubj
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 trade	case
12	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Copenhagen	case
14	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reside	punct
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 reside	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 reside	advmod
18	reside	reside	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 carried	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 town	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 town	det
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reside	obl
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	21 town	nmod:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sent	cc
25	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carried	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 clerks	nmod:poss
27	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sent	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dwelt	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 dwelt	nsubj
30	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 clerks	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 booths	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 booths	det
33	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 booths	amod
34	booths	booth	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dwelt	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 street	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 street	det
37	Hauschen	Hauschen	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 street	compound
38	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 booths	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sold	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sold	cc
41	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carried	conj
42	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sold	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 spices	cc
44	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 beer	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the rich merchants in Bremen and Lubeck		trade	in Copenhagen	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in copenhagen=Location
2	not reside	past · do-support	the rich merchants in Bremen and Lubeck not said here		the town merchants		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
3	send	past	the rich merchants in Bremen and Lubeck not said here	merchants's clerks			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clerk=Theme
4	dwell	past	merchants's clerks		the wooden booths in the Hauschen street		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in booth=Location
5	sell	past	the rich merchants in Bremen and Lubeck not said here	beer and spices			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme

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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