Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 63

The man did as he was told; the architect did not turn round, but called back "The tower does not shake in the least, but one day a man will come from the west in a blue cloak--he will cause it to shake!"

Who acts: man, architect, tower · What happens: do, tell, not turn round, call back, not shake, come · To what, where: man, least, west, tower · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, architect, tower), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 turn	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 architect	det
10	architect	architect	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 turn	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 turn	advmod
13	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	conj
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 turn	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 turn	xcomp
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 called	advmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 shake	punct
20	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tower	det
21	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shake	nsubj
22	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 shake	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 shake	advmod
24	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 called	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 least	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 least	det
27	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 shake	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 come	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 come	cc
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 day	nummod
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	obl:unmarked
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 shake	conj
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 west	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 west	det
38	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 cloak	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 cloak	det
41	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 cloak	amod
42	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 west	nmod
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 cause	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 cause	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 cause	aux
46	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 shake	conj
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 cause	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 shake	mark
49	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 cause	xcomp
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 shake	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 shake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the man					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	not turn round	past · do-support	the architect				round property	tree rules
4	call back speech: assert	participle	the architect not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not shake in a quote	present · do-support	the tower		the least			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in least=Location
6	come in a quote	future	a man		the west in a blue cloak	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from west=Initial_Location
7	cause in a quote	future	architect	tower				tree rules
8	shake in a quote	to-infinitive	tower not said here					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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