Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 120

He was in East Street, as it now appears; he lay with his legs turned towards a porch, and just by him sat the watchman asleep.

Who acts: Counsellor, East Street, legs · What happens: be, appear, lie, turn, sit · To what, where: East Street, porch, watchman

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Counsellor, East Street, legs), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Street	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Street	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Street	case
4	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Street	compound
5	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 appears	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Street	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 appears	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 appears	nsubj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 appears	advmod
10	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 appears	parataxis
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 turned	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 legs	nmod:poss
16	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 turned	nsubj
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	advcl
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 porch	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 porch	det
20	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
23	just	just	ADV	_	26 sat	advmod
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	obl
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 watchman	det
28	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obj
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sat	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Counsellor		East Street			tree rules
2	appear	present	East Street			now		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	past	Counsellor					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	past	Counsellor's legs		a porch			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards porch=Trajectory
5	sit	past	Counsellor not said here	the watchman			by Counsellor; asleep property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent watchman=Theme by he=Location

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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