Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 35

Here stood a lonely inn, and close by it a number of crippled beggars had placed themselves; the brightest among them looked, to quote the words of Marryat, "like the eldest son of Famine who had just come of age."

Who acts: brightest, eldest son · What happens: stand, place, look, quote, come, word · To what, where: lonely inn, number, words, Marryat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brightest, eldest son), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 inn	det
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 inn	amod
5	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 close	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 close	cc
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 close	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 number	det
12	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 placed	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 beggars	case
14	crippled	crippled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beggars	amod
15	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 number	nmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 placed	aux
17	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 close	conj
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 placed	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brightest	det
21	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 looked	nsubj
22	among	among	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brightest	obl
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 quote	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 quote	mark
27	quote	quote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 looked	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 words	det
29	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 quote	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Marryat	case
31	Marryat	Marryat	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 words	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 son	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 son	punct
34	like	like	ADP	_	37 son	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 son	det
36	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 son	amod
37	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 quote	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Famine	case
39	Famine	Famine	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 son	nmod
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 come	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 come	aux
42	just	just	ADV	_	43 come	advmod
43	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 son	acl:relcl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 age	case
45	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 come	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a lonely inn	here		close obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inn=Stimulus
2	place	past · perfect · passive		a number of crippled beggars				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme themselves=Destination
3	look	past	the brightest					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	quote speech: other	to-infinitive	the brightest not said here	the words of Marryat				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
5	come in a quote	past · perfect	the eldest son of Famine			of age		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of age=Initial_Location
6	word			Marryat				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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