Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 14

Umbrellas, sticks, and hats swung in the net before him, and almost obstructed the prospect, which was really very imposing; and as he glanced at it, his memory recalled the words of one poet at least, who has sung of Switzerland, and whose poems have not yet been printed:--

Who acts: Umbrellas, prospect, head, memory · What happens: swing, obstruct, be, glance, recall, sing · To what, where: net, prospect, words, least, poems, one poet

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 (Umbrellas, prospect, head, memory), 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	Umbrellas	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swung	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sticks	punct
3	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Umbrellas	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swung	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swung	cc
6	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swung	nsubj
7	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 net	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 net	det
10	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swung	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swung	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 obstructed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 obstructed	cc
15	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 obstructed	advmod
16	obstructed	obstruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swung	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 prospect	det
18	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 obstructed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 imposing	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 imposing	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 imposing	cop
22	really	really	ADV	_	24 imposing	advmod
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 imposing	advmod
24	imposing	imposing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 prospect	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 glanced	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 glanced	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 glanced	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 glanced	nsubj
29	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swung	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 glanced	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 recalled	punct
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 memory	nmod:poss
34	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 recalled	nsubj
35	recalled	recall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 glanced	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 words	det
37	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 recalled	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 poet	case
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 poet	nummod
40	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 words	nmod
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 least	case
42	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 recalled	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sung	punct
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 sung	nsubj
45	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 sung	aux
46	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 recalled	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 Switzerland	case
48	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 sung	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 printed	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 printed	cc
51	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	52 poems	nmod:poss
52	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 printed	nsubj:pass
53	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 printed	aux
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 printed	advmod
55	yet	yet	ADV	_	57 printed	advmod
56	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 printed	aux:pass
57	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 swung	conj
58	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 swung	punct
59	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 swung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	past	Umbrellas and sticks		the net	before head		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in net=Trajectory
2	obstruct	past	Umbrellas and sticks not said here	the prospect			almost property	vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer prospect=Eventuality
3	is	past	the prospect				imposing property	tree rules
4	glance	past	head				at prospect	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
5	recall	past	head's memory	the words of one poet	least			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
6	sing speech: express	present · perfect					of Switzerland	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
7	not print	present · perfect · passive		poems		yet		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	word			one poet				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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