Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 81

They both looked so rosy-cheeked; and the youngest of the grandchildren danced around them, and called out quite delighted, that there was to be something very splendid that evening--they were all to have hot potatoes.

Who acts: people, youngest, something · What happens: look, cheek, dance, call out, be, have · To what, where: something, hot potatoes

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, youngest, something), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
2	both	both	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 rosy	advmod
5	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 rosy	punct
7	cheeked	cheek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rosy	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 danced	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 danced	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youngest	det
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 danced	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 grandchildren	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grandchildren	det
14	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 youngest	obl
15	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
16	around	around	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 danced	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 called	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 called	cc
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 danced	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 called	compound:prt
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 delighted	advmod
23	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 called	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 was	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 danced	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	30 something	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 something	cop
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 was	nsubj
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 splendid	advmod
32	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 something	amod
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 evening	det
34	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 splendid	obl:unmarked
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 have	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 have	aux
38	all	all	ADV	_	40 have	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 have	mark
40	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 something	conj
41	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 potatoes	amod
42	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 have	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	people			both, rosy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	cheek	participle	people not said here				tree rules
3	dance	past	the youngest			around people	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Location
4	call out speech: assert	participle	the youngest not said here			delighted property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be	past	something		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive		something			tree rules
7	have	past	people	hot potatoes		all property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=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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