Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 13

Sometimes it had come to him in the guise of a peddler, and had opened its box and let silver ribbon come fluttering out, with verses and inscriptions of old remembrances.

Who acts: door, silver · What happens: come, open, let, ribbon, flutter out, verse · To what, where: man, guise, box, silver, old remembrances

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, silver), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 come	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 guise	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guise	det
9	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 peddler	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 peddler	det
12	peddler	peddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guise	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 opened	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 opened	cc
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 opened	aux
16	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 come	conj
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 box	nmod:poss
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opened	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 let	cc
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 opened	conj
21	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 let	obj
22	ribbon	ribbon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fluttering	aux
24	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 ribbon	advcl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 fluttering	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 verses	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 verses	case
28	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ribbon	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 inscriptions	cc
30	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 verses	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 remembrances	case
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 remembrances	amod
33	remembrances	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 verses	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	door		man	the guise of a peddler	sometimes property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	open	past · perfect	door not said here	door's box				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme
3	let	infinitive	door not said here	silver				tree rules
4	ribbon	infinitive	silver not said here				with verses of old remembrances and inscriptions	tree rules
5	flutter out	present	silver not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	verse			old remembrances				nom verse «communication transitive»: of=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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