Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 74

The word had not yet been given to fall back, though they might have done so, and perhaps there would have been much sense in it; and now at last the word "Retire" was given; but our little drummer beat "Forward! march!" for he had understood the command thus, and the soldiers obeyed the sound of the drum.

Who acts: bullets, Retire, soldiers · What happens: not give, fall back, do, be, give, understand · To what, where: word, much sense, last word, command, sound

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullets, Retire, soldiers), 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 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 given	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 given	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 given	aux:pass
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fall	mark
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 given	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 fall	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 done	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 done	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 done	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 given	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	16 done	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sense	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sense	cc
20	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	21 there	advmod
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 sense	advmod
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 sense	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 sense	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 sense	cop
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sense	amod
26	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sense	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 given	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 word	cc
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 last	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 last	case
33	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 word	amod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 word	det
35	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 given	nsubj:pass
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Retire	punct
37	Retire	Retire	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 word	appos
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Retire	punct
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 given	aux:pass
40	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 given	conj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 beat	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 beat	cc
43	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 beat	nmod:poss
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 beat	amod
45	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 beat	compound
46	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	parataxis
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 Forward	punct
48	Forward	forward	ADV	_	50 march	advmod
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	48 Forward	punct
50	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 beat	appos
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	50 march	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 march	punct
53	for	for	SCONJ	_	56 understood	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 understood	nsubj
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 understood	aux
56	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 beat	advcl
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 command	det
58	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 understood	obj
59	thus	thus	ADV	_	56 understood	advmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 obeyed	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 obeyed	cc
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 soldiers	det
63	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 obeyed	nsubj
64	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	conj
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 sound	det
66	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 obeyed	obj
67	of	of	ADP	_	69 drum	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 drum	det
69	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 sound	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give	past · perfect · passive		the word		yet		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	fall back	to-infinitive						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	might · perfect	bullets = bullet					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	would · perfect		much sense	word; there			tree rules
5	give	past · passive		the last word				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	understand	past · perfect	Retire	the command			thus property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer command=Stimulus
7	obey	past	the soldiers	the sound of the drum				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme

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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