Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 57

A number of people, consisting of seamen, Copenhagen citizens, and a few scholars, sat in deep conversation over their mugs, and took very little notice of the new comer.

Who acts: people, number · What happens: consist, sit, take, notice · To what, where: deep conversation, little notice, new comer

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 (people, number), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 consisting	punct
6	consisting	consist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 people	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 seamen	case
8	seamen	seaman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consisting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 citizens	punct
10	Copenhagen	copenhagen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 citizens	compound
11	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seamen	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 scholars	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 scholars	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 scholars	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 scholars	amod
16	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 number	punct
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 conversation	case
20	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 conversation	amod
21	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 mugs	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mugs	nmod:poss
24	mugs	mug	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sat	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 little	advmod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 notice	amod
30	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 comer	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 comer	det
33	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 comer	amod
34	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 notice	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consist	gerund	people not said here			of seamen	tree rules
2	sit	past	a number of people and a few scholars		deep conversation	over number's mugs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in conversation=Location
3	take	past	a number of people and a few scholars not said here	little notice of the new comer			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
4	notice			the new comer			nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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