Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 31

The boxes were very high, and the children knew that they must not creep over them; so they often obtained permission to get out of the windows to each other, and to sit on their little stools among the roses, where they could play delightfully.

Who acts: boxes, children · What happens: be, know, not creep, obtain, get out, sit · To what, where: permission, windows, little stools · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boxes, children), 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 boxes	det
2	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 high	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 high	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 high	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 creep	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 creep	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 creep	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 creep	advmod
15	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 knew	ccomp
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 creep	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 obtained	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 obtained	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 obtained	nsubj
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 obtained	advmod
22	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 high	parataxis
23	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 obtained	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 get	mark
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 obtained	advcl
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 windows	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 windows	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 windows	det
29	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 get	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 each	case
31	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	25 get	obl
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 each	fixed
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sit	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sit	cc
35	to	to	PART	_	36 sit	mark
36	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 high	parataxis
37	on	on	ADP	_	40 stools	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 stools	nmod:poss
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 stools	amod
40	stools	stool	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sit	obl
41	among	among	ADP	_	43 roses	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 roses	det
43	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sit	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 play	punct
45	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	48 play	advmod
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 play	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 play	aux
48	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 sit	conj
49	delightfully	delightfully	ADV	_	48 play	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boxes			high property	tree rules
2	know	past	the children				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not creep	must	boxes = box			over children = child	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Trajectory
4	obtain	past	boxes = box	permission		often property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset permission=Theme
5	get out	to-infinitive	boxes = box not said here	the windows		to each	tree rules
6	sit	to-infinitive			boxes's little stools	among the roses	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location
7	play	could	boxes = box			delightfully property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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