Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 11

Jurgen stood there in his shabby clothes which looked as if they had been washed in the ditch and dried in the chimney; he, who had always dwelt among the sand-hills, now saw a great city for the first time.

Who acts: Jurgen, shabby clothes · What happens: stand, look, wash, dry, dwell, see · To what, where: shabby clothes, purchases, ditch, chimney, Jurgen, great city

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, shabby clothes), 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	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 clothes	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 clothes	nmod:poss
6	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clothes	amod
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 stood	obl
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clothes	acl:relcl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 washed	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 washed	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 washed	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 washed	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 washed	aux:pass
15	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 looked	ccomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 ditch	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ditch	det
18	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 washed	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dried	cc
20	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 washed	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 chimney	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chimney	det
23	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dried	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 dwelt	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dwelt	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dwelt	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 dwelt	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dwelt	aux
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 dwelt	advmod
30	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	conj
31	among	among	ADP	_	35 hills	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hills	det
33	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hills	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 sand	punct
35	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dwelt	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 saw	punct
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 saw	advmod
38	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 city	det
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 city	amod
41	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 saw	obj
42	for	for	ADP	_	45 time	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 time	det
44	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	45 time	amod
45	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 saw	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Jurgen		Jurgen's shabby clothes; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in clothes=Location
2	look	past	Jurgen's shabby clothes					tree rules
3	wash a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		purchases = purchase	the ditch			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	dry	participle			the chimney			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	dwell	past · perfect · passive		Jurgen			among the sand hills; always property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
6	see	past		a great city		now; time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus

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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