Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 63

But the best thing of all was that the merchant Bronne, of Skjagen, into whose service Jurgen had proposed entering the year before, was just at that time on business in the town of Ringkjobing.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: propose, enter, be, service · To what, where: best thing, business

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	21 proposed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 proposed	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 thing	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 proposed	aux:pass
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 proposed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 merchant	det
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 proposed	nsubj:pass
11	Bronne	Bronne	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 merchant	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Skjagen	punct
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Skjagen	case
14	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Bronne	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 service	punct
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 service	case
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 service	nmod:poss
18	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 merchant	conj
19	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 service	appos
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 proposed	aux
21	proposed	propose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 time	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 entering	obl:unmarked
25	before	before	ADV	_	22 entering	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 entering	punct
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 time	cop
28	just	just	ADV	_	31 time	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 time	case
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 proposed	obl:unmarked
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 business	case
33	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 time	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 town	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 town	det
36	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 business	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Ringkjobing	case
38	Ringkjobing	Ringkjobing	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 town	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past · perfect · passive		the best thing of all				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	enter	gerund				year	before property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past			business in the town of Ringkjobing	at that time		tree rules
4	service		the merchant and the merchant and service's service					nom service «act transitive»: 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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