Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 2

The Story that used to visit him of its own accord no longer came and knocked at his door.

Who acts: Story · What happens: use, visit, come, knock · To what, where: man

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 (Story), 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 Story	det
2	Story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Story	acl:relcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 visit	mark
6	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 visit	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 accord	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 accord	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 accord	amod
11	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visit	obl
12	no	no	ADV	_	13 longer	advmod
13	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 visit	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knocked	cc
16	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 door	nmod:poss
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knocked	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	past	the Story			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	visit	to-infinitive	the Story not said here	man	of its own accord; long property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	come	past	the Story			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	knock	past	the Story not said here		at man's door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=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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