Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 1

Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows what the entrance to Frederick's Hospital is like; but as most probably a few of those who read this little tale may not reside in Copenhagen, we will give a short description of it.

Who acts: inhabitant, little tale, we · What happens: know, read, not reside, give, describe · To what, where: Copenhagen, short description, tale

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitant, little tale, we), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 inhabitant	det
2	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Copenhagen	case
4	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 inhabitant	nmod
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 knows	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 entrance	det
8	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 like	nsubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 Hospital	case
10	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Hospital	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Frederick	case
12	Hospital	Hospital	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 entrance	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 like	cop
14	like	like	ADP	_	6 what	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 give	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 give	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 few	mark
18	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 few	nsubj
19	probably	probably	ADV	_	21 few	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 few	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 give	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 those	case
23	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 few	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 read	nsubj
25	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 those	acl:relcl
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 tale	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tale	amod
28	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reside	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 reside	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 reside	advmod
31	reside	reside	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 read	ccomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 Copenhagen	case
33	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 reside	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 few	punct
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 give	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 give	aux
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 knows	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 description	det
39	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 description	amod
40	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 description	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	present	every inhabitant of Copenhagen			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	read	present				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not reside	may	this little tale		Copenhagen	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in copenhagen=Location
4	give	future	we	a short description of tale		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme
5	describe			tale		nom description «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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