Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 58

All the ladies of the court, with their attendants and attendants' attendants, and all the cavaliers, with their gentlemen and gentlemen's gentlemen, stood round; and the nearer they stood to the door, the prouder they looked.

Who acts: ladies, cavaliers · What happens: stand, look · To what, where: prouder

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 (ladies, cavaliers), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ladies	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ladies	det
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stood	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 court	det
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ladies	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 attendants	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 attendants	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 attendants	nmod:poss
10	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ladies	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 attendants	cc
12	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 attendants	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 attendants	case
14	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 attendants	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stood	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stood	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 cavaliers	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cavaliers	det
19	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stood	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gentlemen	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 gentlemen	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 gentlemen	nmod:poss
23	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cavaliers	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gentlemen	cc
25	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gentlemen	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 gentlemen	case
27	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cavaliers	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cavaliers	punct
29	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	round	round	ADV	_	29 stood	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 nearer	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 nearer	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 nearer	det
34	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 stood	parataxis
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stood	nsubj
36	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 nearer	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 door	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 door	det
39	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stood	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 prouder	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 prouder	det
42	prouder	prouder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 nearer	conj
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 looked	nsubj
44	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 prouder	acl:relcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	all ladies of the court and ladies's attendants and attendants's attendants		round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past	cavaliers = cavalier		to the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	cavaliers = cavalier	the prouder not said here		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prouder=Attribute

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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