Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 59

In a very few seconds the watchman had travelled more than two hundred thousand miles to the moon, which is formed of a lighter material than our earth, and may be said to be as soft as new fallen snow.

Who acts: watchman · What happens: travell, form, say, be, fall · To what, where: thousand miles, moon · 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 (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	In	in	ADP	_	5 seconds	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seconds	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 few	advmod
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seconds	amod
5	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 travelled	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 watchman	det
7	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 travelled	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 travelled	aux
9	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	13 hundred	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 more	fixed
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hundred	compound
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 thousand	compound
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 miles	nummod
15	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 travelled	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 moon	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moon	det
18	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 travelled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 formed	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 formed	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 formed	aux:pass
22	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 moon	acl:relcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 material	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 material	det
25	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 material	amod
26	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 formed	obl
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 earth	case
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 earth	nmod:poss
29	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 material	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 said	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 said	aux:pass
34	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 travelled	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	38 soft	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 soft	cop
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 soft	advmod
38	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 said	ccomp
39	as	as	ADP	_	42 snow	case
40	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 snow	amod
41	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 snow	amod
42	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 soft	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	travell	past · perfect	the watchman	thousand miles	second	to the moon	tree rules
2	form	present · passive		the moon		of a lighter material than our earth	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	say speech: assert	may · passive	the watchman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»
4	is	to-infinitive				as new fallen snow; soft property	tree rules
5	fall	participle					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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