Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 45

The carriage stopped at the top of the lane, and the company proceeded on foot towards the house, to inspect the young sculptor's work, for they had heard him spoken of by chance.

Who acts: carriage, company, sculptors, young sculptor · What happens: stop, proceed, inspect, hear, speak, work · To what, where: top, foot, work, company · 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 (carriage, company, sculptors, young sculptor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 carriage	det
2	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 lane	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lane	det
9	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 top	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proceeded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 proceeded	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 company	det
13	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proceeded	nsubj
14	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 foot	case
16	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proceeded	obl
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proceeded	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 inspect	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 inspect	mark
22	inspect	inspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 proceeded	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sculptor	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sculptor	amod
25	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 work	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 sculptor	case
27	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 inspect	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 heard	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 heard	case
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heard	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 heard	aux
32	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 inspect	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heard	obj
34	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 heard	xcomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	34 spoken	obl
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 chance	case
37	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spoken	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the carriage		the top of the lane		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location
2	proceed	past	the company		foot	towards the house	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	inspect	to-infinitive	the company not said here	the young sculptor's work			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
4	hear	past · perfect	sculptors = sculptor	company			tree rules
5	speak speech: other	participle	company not said here			by chance	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	work		the young sculptor				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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