Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 120
A number of elegantly dressed gentlemen and ladies from foreign lands, and crowds of country people from the neighboring cantons, were assembled in the town.
Who acts: number · What happens: dress, assemble · To what, where: crowds, town
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gentlemen | case |
| 4 | elegantly | elegantly | ADV | _ | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gentlemen | amod |
| 6 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 number | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ladies | cc |
| 8 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gentlemen | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 lands | case |
| 10 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lands | amod |
| 11 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ladies | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 assembled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 assembled | cc |
| 14 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 people | compound |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 crowds | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 cantons | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cantons | det |
| 20 | neighboring | neighboring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cantons | amod |
| 21 | cantons | canton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 people | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cantons | punct |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 assembled | aux:pass |
| 24 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 number | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 town | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 town | det |
| 27 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 assembled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 number | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | elegantly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | assemble | past · passive | a number of dressed gentlemen and ladies from foreign lands not said here | crowds of country people from the neighboring cantons | the town | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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