Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 65
With the collector were several men who seemed to have a great deal to do, so I fell unnoticed into a chest, among several other coins.
Who acts: several men · What happens: be, seem, have, do, unnotic · To what, where: several men, great deal, I, chest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (several men), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 collector | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 collector | det |
| 3 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 men | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 men | cop |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 men | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deal | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deal | amod |
| 13 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 deal | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 unnoticed | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 unnoticed | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 unnoticed | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 unnoticed | aux:pass |
| 20 | unnoticed | unnotic | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seemed | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 chest | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 chest | det |
| 23 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 unnoticed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 coins | punct |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 coins | case |
| 26 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 coins | amod |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 coins | amod |
| 28 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 unnoticed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | several men | with the collector | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | several men | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | several men not said here | a great deal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | several men not said here | a great deal not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | unnotic | past · passive | I | a chest | among several other coins | tree rules |
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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