Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 24

Many were noticed to go about on that afternoon with only one suspender; but then they had seen Puggie's grave, and the sight was worth much more.

Who acts: Many, children, sight · What happens: notice, go about, see, be · To what, where: Many, grave

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, children, sight), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 noticed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	aux:pass
3	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 noticed	xcomp
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 afternoon	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 afternoon	det
9	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 suspender	case
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 suspender	nummod
13	suspender	suspender	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 seen	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 seen	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 seen	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seen	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 noticed	conj
20	Puggie	Puggie	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 grave	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Puggie	case
22	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 worth	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 worth	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sight	det
26	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 worth	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 worth	cop
28	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 noticed	parataxis
29	much	much	ADV	_	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 worth	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past · passive		Many			tree rules
2	go about	to-infinitive	Many not said here		afternoon	with one suspender; about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with suspender=Instrument
3	see	past · perfect	children = child	Puggie's grave	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grave=Stimulus
4	is	past	the sight			worth property	tree rules

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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