Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 178

Young and old, the whole city, were there; who was to warn them, if no one noticed the sign, or knew what it meant as I did?

Who acts: Young whole city, one, it, I · What happens: be, notice, know, mean, do · To what, where: sign · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Young whole city, one, it, I), 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	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 city	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 old	cc
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Young	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 city	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 city	amod
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 there	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 city	punct
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 there	cop
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 warn	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 warn	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 warn	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 warn	mark
15	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 there	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 warn	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 noticed	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 noticed	mark
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 noticed	nsubj
21	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 warn	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sign	det
23	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 noticed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knew	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 knew	cc
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 noticed	conj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 meant	obj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 meant	nsubj
29	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 knew	ccomp
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 did	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 did	nsubj
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 meant	ccomp
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Young whole city		there property	tree rules
2	is	past			warn property	tree rules
3	notice a condition, not said to happen	past	no one	the sign		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus
4	know	past	no one not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	mean	past	it			tree rules
6	do	past	I			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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