Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 135

Instead of which, I wrote directly to the persons themselves, and great alarm arose in all the town I visited.

Who acts: I, great alarm · What happens: write, arise, visit · To what, where: persons, town

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, great alarm), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	6 wrote	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 wrote	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 which	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wrote	nsubj
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	directly	directly	ADV	_	6 wrote	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 persons	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 persons	det
10	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrote	obl
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	10 persons	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 arose	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 arose	cc
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 alarm	amod
15	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 arose	nsubj
16	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrote	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 town	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 town	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 town	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 arose	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 visited	nsubj
22	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 town	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	I		the persons persons		directly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Topic to person=Recipient
2	arise	past	great alarm			all town		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
3	visit	past	I	all town not said here				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Co-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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