Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 15

About twenty years ago, there might be seen occasionally, standing at a short distance from the other children, a little boy, who was also anxious to sell his curious wares.

Who acts: little boy · What happens: see, stand, be, sell · To what, where: curious wares

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 twenty	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ago	obl:unmarked
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 seen	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ago	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 seen	expl
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 seen	aux:pass
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	9 seen	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 standing	punct
12	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 seen	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 distance	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 distance	det
15	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 distance	amod
16	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 standing	obl
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 children	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 children	amod
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 distance	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 boy	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 boy	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	amod
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 distance	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 anxious	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 anxious	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 anxious	cop
28	also	also	ADV	_	29 anxious	advmod
29	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sell	mark
31	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 anxious	xcomp
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 wares	nmod:poss
33	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wares	amod
34	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sell	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	might · passive			there	ago, occasionally property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
2	stand	gerund				at a short distance from the other children and a little boy	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location
3	is	past	a little boy			anxious property	tree rules
4	sell	to-infinitive	a little boy not said here	boy's curious wares			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=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.

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