Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 1

Early on the following morning, while the clerk was still in bed, his neighbor, a young divinity student, who lodged on the same storey, knocked at his door, and then walked in. "

Who acts: clerk, young divinity student · What happens: follow, be, lodge, knock, walk in · To what, where: bed, same storey

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, young divinity student), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 morning	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morning	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 morning	amod
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bed	punct
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 bed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clerk	det
9	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bed	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bed	cop
11	still	still	ADV	_	13 bed	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 bed	case
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 morning	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 neighbor	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 neighbor	nmod:poss
16	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 student	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 student	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 student	amod
20	divinity	divinity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 student	compound
21	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 morning	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lodged	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 lodged	nsubj
24	lodged	lodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 student	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 storey	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 storey	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 storey	amod
28	storey	storey	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lodged	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knocked	punct
30	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lodged	parataxis
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 door	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 door	nmod:poss
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knocked	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 walked	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 walked	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 walked	advmod
37	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 knocked	conj
38	in	in	ADV	_	37 walked	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 student	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 student	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the clerk	bed and his neighbor	still		tree rules
3	lodge	past	a young divinity student	the same storey			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on storey=Destination
4	knock	past				at student's door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
5	walk in	past			then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/1/