Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 112

The courtiers who came in afterwards looked noble and grand; but any one with common sense could see what they really were, only broomsticks, with cabbages for heads.

Who acts: courtiers, one · What happens: come in, look, see, be · To what, where: courtiers, broomsticks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 courtiers	det
2	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 courtiers	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	7 looked	advmod
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	advcl
8	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 looked	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grand	cc
10	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 noble	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	nsubj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 sense	case
16	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sense	amod
17	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obl
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 courtiers	parataxis
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 see	obj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 broomsticks	nsubj
22	really	really	ADV	_	26 broomsticks	advmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 broomsticks	cop
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 broomsticks	punct
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 broomsticks	advmod
26	broomsticks	broomstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 what	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cabbages	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 cabbages	case
29	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 broomsticks	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 heads	case
31	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cabbages	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the courtiers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	the courtiers not said here		afterwards, noble property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	could	any one	the courtiers	with common sense	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	is a	past	courtiers = courtier	broomsticks and cabbages for heads		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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