Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 85

All his comrades were very much frightened, for he seemed quite dead; still they allowed him to remain after they had given notice of what had happened; and at dawn the body was carried to the hospital.

Who acts: body, comrades · What happens: frighten, seem, allow, remain, give, happen · To what, where: comrades, body, notice, hospital

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 (body, comrades), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 comrades	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 comrades	nmod:poss
3	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	aux:pass
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 frightened	advmod
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 seemed	case
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	parataxis
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 dead	advmod
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seemed	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 allowed	punct
15	still	still	ADV	_	17 allowed	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 allowed	nsubj
17	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seemed	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 allowed	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 remain	mark
20	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 allowed	xcomp
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	24 given	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 given	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 given	aux
24	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 remain	ccomp
25	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 given	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 what	case
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 notice	nmod
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 happened	aux
29	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 what	acl:relcl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 carried	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 carried	cc
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 dawn	case
33	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 carried	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 body	det
35	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 carried	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 carried	aux:pass
37	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 frightened	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 hospital	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hospital	det
40	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 carried	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		body's comrades					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	seem	past	body					dead property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	allow	past	comrades = comrade		body		still		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive	comrades = comrade not said here						tree rules
5	give	past · perfect	comrades = comrade	notice					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
6	happen	past · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	carry	past · passive		the body		the hospital	dawn		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hospital=Destination

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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