Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 84

At every station strangers alight with red-bound guide-books in their hands, in which they read of every place worth seeing.

Who acts: books · What happens: bind, read, see

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (books), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 strangers	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 strangers	det
3	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strangers	compound
4	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 alight	obl
5	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	12 books	case
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bound	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 red	punct
9	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 books	amod
10	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 books	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 guide	punct
12	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 alight	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hands	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 books	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 read	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 read	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 read	nsubj
20	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 alight	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 place	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 place	det
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 read	obl
24	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 place	amod
25	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 worth	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 alight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	bind	participle			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	read	past	books = book	of every place	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of place=Topic
3	see	gerund	books = book not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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