Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 34

The visits to the church were festive occasions, but among the fisherman's house one was especially looked forward to; this was, in fact, the visit of the brother of Jurgen's foster-mother, the eel-breeder from Fjaltring, near Bovbjerg.

Who acts: visits, this · What happens: be, look, visit · To what, where: festive occasions, fact, brother

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visits, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 visits	det
2	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 occasions	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 visits	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 occasions	cop
7	festive	festive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 occasions	amod
8	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 looked	cc
11	among	among	ADP	_	15 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fisherman	det
13	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 house	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 fisherman	case
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looked	obl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 house	flat
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looked	aux:pass
18	especially	especially	ADV	_	19 looked	advmod
19	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 occasions	conj
20	forward	forward	ADV	_	19 looked	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 forward	fixed
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 fact	punct
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 fact	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fact	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fact	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 fact	case
27	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 occasions	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 visit	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 visit	det
30	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fact	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 brother	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 brother	det
33	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 visit	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	39 mother	case
35	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 mother	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Jurgen	case
37	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mother	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 foster	punct
39	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brother	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 breeder	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 breeder	det
42	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 breeder	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 eel	punct
44	breeder	breeder	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fact	parataxis
45	from	from	ADP	_	46 Fjaltring	case
46	Fjaltring	Fjaltring	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 breeder	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Bovbjerg	punct
48	near	near	ADP	_	49 Bovbjerg	case
49	Bovbjerg	Bovbjerg	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Fjaltring	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 occasions	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the visits to the church	festive occasions and fact			tree rules
2	look	past · passive	the visits to the church not said here			among the fisherman's house; especially, forward property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: among house=Theme
3	is	past	this		fact		tree rules
4	visit			the brother of Jurgen's foster mother			nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient

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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