Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 37

The poor watchman in the street," said he, "is far happier than I am.

Who acts: poor watchman, watchman · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor watchman, watchman), 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	3 watchman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 watchman	amod
3	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 street	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 street	det
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watchman	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 watchman	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 watchman	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 happier	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 happier	cop
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 happier	advmod
15	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 said	ccomp
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 am	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 am	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 happier	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the poor watchman in the street						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	watchman					far, happy property	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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