Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 38

It was just as if the people within were under a charm, and had fallen into a trance till they came out again into the street; for then--oh, then--they could chatter enough.

Who acts: guard, People · What happens: be, fall, come out, chatter · To what, where: people, trance, street, enough

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guard, People), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 people	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 people	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 as	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	7 people	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 people	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	within	within	ADP	_	12 charm	case
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 charm	cop
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 charm	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 charm	det
12	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fallen	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fallen	cc
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fallen	aux
16	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 people	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 trance	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 trance	det
19	trance	trance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fallen	obl
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fallen	advcl
23	out	out	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 street	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 street	det
27	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 chatter	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 then	case
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 chatter	obl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 then	punct
32	oh	oh	INTJ	_	38 chatter	discourse
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 oh	punct
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 chatter	advmod
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 chatter	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 chatter	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 chatter	aux
38	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fallen	parataxis
39	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 chatter	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 people	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	guard	the people				tree rules
2	is	past					within a charm	tree rules
3	fall	past · perfect	guard not said here				into a trance result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trance=Result
4	come out	past	People		the street	again	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	chatter	could	People	enough		then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent enough=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: «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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