Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 41

The villagers came forth to go to church; by the roadside they found a workman seated, but he was dead! frozen to death under a willow-tree.

Who acts: villagers, Joanna · What happens: come, go, find, seat, be, freeze · To what, where: church, workman, willow tree

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (villagers, Joanna), 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 villagers	det
2	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 church	case
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 roadside	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 roadside	det
12	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 workman	det
16	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
17	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 workman	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dead	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 dead	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dead	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dead	cop
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 found	advcl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 frozen	punct
24	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 dead	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 death	case
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 frozen	obl
27	under	under	ADP	_	31 tree	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tree	det
29	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tree	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 willow	punct
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 frozen	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the villagers			forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive	the villagers not said here		church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
3	find	past	villagers = villager	a workman		by the roadside	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Topic
4	seat	participle		a workman not said here			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
5	is	past	Joanna			dead property	tree rules
6	freeze	participle	Joanna not said here		a willow tree	to death	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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