Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 37

There is certainly a talk about one who was not allowed to go--they call him the Wandering Jew: he has to ride behind the omnibus.

Who acts: talk, deeds, Wandering Jew · What happens: be, not allow, go, call, have, ride · To what, where: talk, Wandering Jew, omnibus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (talk, deeds, Wandering Jew), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 is	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 talk	det
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 allowed	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 allowed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 allowed	aux:pass
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 allowed	advmod
11	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 talk	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 allowed	xcomp
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 call	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 call	nsubj
16	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 call	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Jew	det
19	Wandering	Wandering	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Jew	compound
20	Jew	Jew	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 call	xcomp
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Jew	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 ride	mark
25	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 has	xcomp
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	28 omnibus	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 omnibus	det
28	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ride	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a talk			there	certainly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not allow	past · passive		a talk			about one	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	a talk not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call	present	deeds = deed		talk			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	have	present	talk	the Wandering Jew not said here				tree rules
6	ride	to-infinitive	the Wandering Jew not said here			the omnibus		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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