Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 171

Towards evening, when the clerk entered the church to toll the vesper bell, he saw by the altar Anne Lisbeth, who had spent the whole day there.

Who acts: clerk, Anne · What happens: enter, toll, see, spend · To what, where: church, vesper bell

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, Anne), 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entered	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 entered	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 entered	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clerk	det
6	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entered	nsubj
7	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entered	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 toll	mark
11	toll	toll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 entered	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bell	det
13	vesper	vesper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bell	compound
14	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 toll	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 entered	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 altar	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 altar	det
20	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obl
21	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 altar	appos
22	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Anne	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spent	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 spent	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 spent	aux
26	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 Anne	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 day	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 day	amod
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spent	obj
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 spent	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the clerk	the church		evening		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Destination
2	toll	to-infinitive	the clerk not said here	the vesper bell				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
3	see	past	clerk				by the altar	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	spend	past · perfect	Anne		there	day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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