Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 4

The footmen stood with their backs against the carriages, so as to turn their faces from the wind.

Who acts: footmen · What happens: stand, turn · To what, where: carriages, faces, wind

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footmen), 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 footmen	det
2	footmen	footman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 backs	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 backs	nmod:poss
6	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	obl
7	against	against	ADP	_	9 carriages	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 carriages	det
9	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turn	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 turn	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 turn	mark
13	to	to	PART	_	14 turn	mark
14	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 faces	nmod:poss
16	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 turn	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 wind	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wind	det
19	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turn	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the footmen			the carriages		with footmen's backs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against carriage=Location
2	turn	to-infinitive	the footmen not said here	footmen's faces		the wind			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme from wind=Trajectory

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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