Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 103

The children danced about with their beautiful playthings; no one looked at the Tree except the old nurse, who peeped between the branches; but it was only to see if there was a fig or an apple left that had been forgotten.

Who acts: children, one, old nurse, permission, fig · What happens: dance, look, peep, see, be, leave · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, one, old nurse, permission), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 danced	nsubj
3	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 danced	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 playthings	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 playthings	nmod:poss
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 playthings	amod
8	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 danced	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 Tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Tree	det
15	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
16	except	except	ADP	_	19 nurse	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nurse	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nurse	amod
19	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 peeped	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 peeped	nsubj
22	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 nurse	acl:relcl
23	between	between	ADP	_	25 branches	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 branches	det
25	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 peeped	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
30	only	only	ADV	_	32 see	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 danced	conj
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 was	mark
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 was	expl
35	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 left	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 fig	det
37	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 left	nsubj
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 apple	cc
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 apple	det
40	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fig	conj
41	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 see	ccomp
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 forgotten	nsubj:pass
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 forgotten	aux
44	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 forgotten	aux:pass
45	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 left	ccomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	past	the children			with children's beautiful playthings; about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	no one			except the old nurse; at the Tree	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme
3	peep	past	the old nurse			between the branches	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent between branch=Theme
4	see	past	permission				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be a condition, not said to happen	past	a fig or a apple not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	past	a fig or a apple				tree rules
7	forget	past · perfect · passive		that			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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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