Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 172

This or that honest citizen would often come to the ferry-house from the neighboring little town.

Who acts: This · What happens: come, neighbor · To what, where: ferry house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 come	nsubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 come	cc
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 come	mark
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 citizen	amod
5	citizen	citizen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
11	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ferry	punct
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	18 town	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
16	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 town	amod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 town	amod
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	This			the ferry house from the neighboring little town		often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	neighbor	gerund							vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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