Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 76

Gayly-dressed serving-men, adorned with trappings like sleigh horses, walked to and fro, and some reclined at their ease upon the carved oak seats, as if they were the masters of the house.

Who acts: dressed serving men, men · What happens: dress, adorn, walk, fro, recline, carve · To what, where: some, ease

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 (dressed serving men, men), 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	Gayly	gayly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dressed	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Gayly	punct
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 men	amod
4	serving	serving	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 serving	punct
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 adorned	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 adorned	punct
8	adorned	adorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 trappings	case
10	trappings	trapping	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 adorned	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 horses	case
12	sleigh	sleigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 horses	compound
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trappings	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct
15	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 adorned	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 walked	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fro	cc
18	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 walked	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reclined	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 reclined	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 reclined	nsubj:pass
22	reclined	recline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 adorned	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 ease	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 ease	nmod:poss
25	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reclined	obl
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 seats	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 seats	det
28	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 seats	amod
29	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seats	compound
30	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 reclined	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 masters	punct
32	as	as	ADP	_	37 masters	case
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 masters	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 masters	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 masters	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 masters	det
37	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 reclined	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 house	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 house	det
40	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 masters	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 adorned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	participle					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	adorn	participle	dressed serving men			with trappings like sleigh horses	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with trapping=Theme
3	walk	past					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fro	infinitive					tree rules
5	recline	participle · passive		some	men's ease	upon the carved oak seats	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at ease=Destination
6	carve	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	men = man			as the masters; of the house	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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