Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 110

It appeared to him that the old people were dead, and that he had been taken to the iron foundry to be melted down.

Who acts: It, old people · What happens: appear, be, take, melt down · To what, where: gift, iron foundry

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, old people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 appeared	nsubj
2	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 appeared	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 dead	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dead	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 appeared	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taken	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 taken	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 taken	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taken	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taken	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 taken	aux:pass
17	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 appeared	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 foundry	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 foundry	det
20	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 foundry	amod
21	foundry	foundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taken	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	24 melted	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 melted	aux:pass
24	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 foundry	acl
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 melted	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	It		gift			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the old people				dead property	tree rules
3	take	past · perfect · passive		gift		the iron foundry		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to foundry=Destination
4	melt down	to-infinitive · passive						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»

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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