Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 20

Every morning an old man came to clean the rooms, and to wait upon him, otherwise the old man in the knee-breeches would have been quite alone in the house.

Who acts: old man · What happens: come, clean, wait, be · To what, where: rooms, old man, knee breeches

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 clean	mark
8	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rooms	det
10	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clean	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wait	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wait	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wait	mark
14	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wait	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
18	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	21 man	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wait	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 breeches	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 breeches	det
24	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 breeches	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 knee	punct
26	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 alone	obl
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 alone	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 alone	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 alone	cop
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 alone	advmod
31	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 house	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 house	det
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 alone	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a old man			morning		tree rules
2	clean	to-infinitive	a old man not said here	the rooms				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient
3	wait	to-infinitive	a old man not said here	the old man			upon man	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
4	is	would · perfect	a old man not said here		the knee breeches		in the house; alone property	tree rules

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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