Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 30

“Up there is the rabble of the wood,” continued she, pointing to several laths which were fastened before a hole high up in the wall; “that's the rabble; they would all fly away immediately, if they were not well fastened in.

Who acts: rabble, that, laths · What happens: be, continue, point, fasten, fly away, not fasten in · To what, where: rabble, several laths, wall, laths · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rabble, that, laths), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 rabble	punct
2	Up	up	ADV	_	4 is	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rabble	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rabble	det
6	rabble	rabble	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 continued	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rabble	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rabble	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 rabble	punct
12	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 continued	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pointing	punct
15	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 continued	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 laths	case
17	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 laths	amod
18	laths	lath	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pointing	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 fastened	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fastened	aux:pass
21	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 laths	acl:relcl
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 up	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hole	det
24	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 up	nsubj
25	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 up	advmod
26	up	up	ADV	_	21 fastened	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 wall	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wall	det
29	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fastened	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 rabble	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 rabble	punct
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 rabble	nsubj
33	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 rabble	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rabble	det
35	rabble	rabble	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 continued	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 fly	punct
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 fly	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 fly	aux
39	all	all	ADV	_	40 fly	advmod
40	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 continued	parataxis
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 fly	advmod
42	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	40 fly	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fastened	punct
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 fastened	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fastened	nsubj:pass
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 fastened	aux:pass
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 fastened	advmod
48	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 fastened	advmod
49	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 fly	conj
50	in	in	ADP	_	49 fastened	compound:prt
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the rabble			of the wood	tree rules
2	continue	past	the rabble					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	point	gerund	the rabble not said here		several laths			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lath=Recipient
4	fasten	past · passive		several laths		the wall		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	is a in a quote	present	that	the rabble				tree rules
6	fly away in a quote	would	laths = lath				all, away, immediately property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not fasten in a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · passive		laths = lath			well property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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