Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 32

He had on the goloshes; they had not been sent for, and as the streets were still very dirty, they were of great service to him.

Who acts: Hospital, goloshes · What happens: have, not send, be · To what, where: goloshes, Hospital

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 (Hospital, goloshes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 goloshes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goloshes	det
5	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sent	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sent	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 sent	advmod
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 sent	aux:pass
11	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	11 sent	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dirty	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dirty	cc
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 streets	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 streets	det
17	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dirty	obl
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dirty	cop
19	still	still	ADV	_	21 dirty	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 dirty	advmod
21	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 service	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 service	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 service	cop
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 service	case
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 service	amod
27	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dirty	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 service	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Hospital			the goloshes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not send	past · perfect · passive		goloshes = golosh					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past					still	as the streets; dirty property	tree rules
4	is	past	goloshes = golosh		Hospital			of great service	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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