Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 3

They look exactly like my own goloshes," said one of the clerks, examining the unknown articles, as they stood by the side of his own. "

Who acts: lieutenant, one · What happens: look, say, examine, stand · To what, where: unknown articles · 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 (lieutenant, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 goloshes	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 goloshes	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 goloshes	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goloshes	amod
7	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goloshes	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 goloshes	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 look	advcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 said	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 clerks	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clerks	det
14	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 examining	punct
16	examining	examine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 articles	det
18	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 articles	amod
19	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 examining	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 stood	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 examining	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 side	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 side	det
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 own	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 own	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 side	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	lieutenant			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	one of the clerks			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	examine in a quote	gerund	one of the clerks not said here	the unknown articles		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=Theme
4	stand in a quote	past	lieutenant		by the side of watchman's own	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location

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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