Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 42

When he came to a party, he looked somehow as if he were riding into the room upon his high horse; and he had orders, too, such a number that no one would have believed it; but that was not his fault.

Who acts: General, that · What happens: come, look, ride, have, believe, not be · To what, where: party, room, orders, number, fault

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General, that), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 party	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 party	det
6	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 riding	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 riding	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 riding	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 riding	aux
15	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 looked	advcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 room	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 riding	obl
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 horse	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 horse	nmod:poss
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 horse	amod
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 riding	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	parataxis
27	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 too	punct
29	too	too	ADV	_	26 had	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 number	punct
31	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 number	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 number	det
33	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	conj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 believed	nsubj:pass
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 believed	nsubj:pass
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 believed	aux
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 believed	aux
39	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 number	acl:relcl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 believed	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 fault	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 fault	cc
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 fault	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 fault	cop
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 fault	advmod
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 fault	nmod:poss
47	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	parataxis
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	General		a party		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location
2	look	past	General			somehow property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	ride	past · progressive	General		the room	upon General's high horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into room=Trajectory
4	have	past	General	orders			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient
5	believe	would · perfect · passive		such number			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme it=Eventuality
6	not is a	past	that	General's fault			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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