Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 14

In the avenue he met with an acquaintance, one of our young poets, who told him that he intended to start on the following day on a summer excursion. "

Who acts: man, young poets · What happens: meet, tell, intend, start, follow · To what, where: avenue, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, young poets), 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	_	3 avenue	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 avenue	det
3	avenue	avenue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 acquaintance	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 acquaintance	det
8	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 met	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 poets	case
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 poets	nmod:poss
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 poets	amod
14	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 poets	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 intended	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 intended	nsubj
21	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 start	mark
23	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 intended	xcomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 day	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 day	det
26	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 day	amod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 start	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 excursion	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 excursion	det
30	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 excursion	compound
31	excursion	excursion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 day	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	man		the avenue		with a acquaintance	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with acquaintance=Co-Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	our young poets	man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	intend	past	man					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	start not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here			day		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «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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