Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 3

Therefore he immediately set his foot into the mud and mire of the street, which in those days possessed no pavement.

Who acts: Counsellor · What happens: set, possess · To what, where: foot, mud, street

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), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 foot	nmod:poss
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 mud	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mud	det
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mire	cc
11	mire	mire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mud	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 street	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 street	det
14	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mire	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 possessed	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 possessed	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 days	case
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 days	det
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 possessed	obl
20	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 street	acl:relcl
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 pavement	det
22	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 possessed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	Counsellor	Counsellor's foot		the mud and mire of the street		immediately, therefore property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result
2	possess	past		the street			day		tree rules

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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