Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 44

Now, it happened one morning--the bright Star tells nothing about this, but we know it occurred--that a noble Roman company came into the narrow lane.

Who acts: it, bright Star, we, Star, noble Roman company · What happens: happen, tell, know, occur, come · To what, where: nothing, narrow lane · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, bright Star, we, Star), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 happened	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 morning	nummod
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl:unmarked
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 tells	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Star	det
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Star	amod
10	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tells	nsubj
11	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	parataxis
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 tells	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 this	case
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 nothing	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 know	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tells	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 occurred	nsubj
20	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 know	ccomp
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 company	det
24	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 company	amod
25	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 company	amod
26	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 occurred	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 lane	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lane	det
30	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lane	amod
31	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			now; morning		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	the bright Star	nothing			about this	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient about this=Topic
3	know	present	we					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	occur	past	Star					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	a noble Roman company		the narrow lane			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lane=Initial_Location

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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