Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 19

The bridge, which he supposed led to Palace Square, was nowhere to be found; but instead, he saw a bank and some shallow water, and two people, who sat in a boat.

Who acts: Palace, bridge, two people · What happens: lead, find, see, sit · To what, where: bridge, bank, boat

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 (Palace, bridge, two people), 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 bridge	det
2	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 led	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 led	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 led	nsubj
6	supposed	suppose	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 led	aux:pass
7	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bridge	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Palace	case
9	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 led	obl:agent
10	Square	Square	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Palace	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bridge	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	aux:pass
13	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 found	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	16 found	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 found	aux:pass
16	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
19	instead	instead	ADV	_	22 saw	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 instead	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bank	det
24	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 water	cc
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 water	det
27	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bank	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sat	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sat	cc
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 people	nummod
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sat	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sat	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 sat	nsubj
35	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 boat	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 boat	det
38	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sat	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past · passive	Palace	the bridge			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	find	past · passive		the bridge		nowhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	see	past	bridge	a bank and some shallow water		instead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bank=Stimulus
4	sit	past	two people		a boat		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in boat=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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