Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 2

What had become of him, no one knew, nor could any one give the slightest information, excepting the boys, who said that he had tied his sledge to another very large one, which had driven through the street, and out at the town gate.

Who acts: one, boys · What happens: become, know, any, give, except, say · To what, where: slightest information, boys, Kay, large one, street · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, boys), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 become	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 become	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 any	punct
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 any	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 any	aux
13	any	any	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 knew	ccomp
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 give	nsubj
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 any	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 information	det
17	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 information	amod
18	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 excepting	punct
20	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 any	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boys	det
22	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 excepting	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 boys	acl:relcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 tied	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tied	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tied	aux
29	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 said	ccomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sledge	nmod:poss
31	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tied	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	36 one	case
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	36 one	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 large	advmod
35	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 one	amod
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tied	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 driven	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 driven	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 driven	aux
40	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 one	acl:relcl
41	through	through	ADP	_	43 street	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 street	det
43	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 driven	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 out	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 out	cc
46	out	out	ADV	_	9 knew	parataxis
47	at	at	ADP	_	50 gate	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 gate	det
49	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 gate	compound
50	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 out	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect					of Kay	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	know	past	no one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	any	could						tree rules
4	give	infinitive	one	the slightest information				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Theme
5	except	gerund		the boys				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	the boys					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	tie	past · perfect · passive		Kay	another large one			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient sledge=Result
8	drive	past · perfect · passive		another large one		the street		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme through street=Trajectory

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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