Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 5

One of the young volunteers, of whom, physically speaking, it might be said that he had a great head, was on guard that evening at the hospital.

Who acts: Hospital · What happens: speak, say, have, be · To what, where: tale, great head, guard · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 volunteers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 volunteers	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 volunteers	amod
5	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 whom	punct
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 whom	case
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 One	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 speaking	punct
10	physically	physically	ADV	_	11 speaking	advmod
11	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 whom	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 said	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	aux:pass
16	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 One	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 head	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 head	amod
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 guard	punct
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 guard	cop
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 guard	case
26	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 evening	det
28	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 guard	appos
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 hospital	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hospital	det
31	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 evening	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 One	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund				physically property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	might · passive		tale			tree rules
3	have	past	Hospital	a great head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	is	past			guard		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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