Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 35

“Thankee! thankee!” or “cranky! cranky!” sounded from all the furniture; there was so much of it, that each article stood in the other's way, to get a look at the little boy.

Who acts: Thankee, article · What happens: sound, be, stand, get · To what, where: furniture, way, look

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thankee, article), 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	_	2 Thankee	punct
2	Thankee	thankee	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sounded	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Thankee	punct
4	thankee	thankee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thankee	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Thankee	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thankee	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 cranky	cc
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 cranky	punct
9	cranky	cranky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cranky	amod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 cranky	punct
11	cranky	cranky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Thankee	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 cranky	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 cranky	punct
14	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 furniture	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 furniture	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 furniture	det
18	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sounded	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 was	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 much	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sounded	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 much	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stood	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 stood	mark
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 article	det
29	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	nsubj
30	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sounded	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 way	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 other	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 way	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 other	case
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 get	punct
37	to	to	PART	_	38 get	mark
38	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 stood	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 look	det
40	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	obj
41	at	at	ADP	_	44 boy	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 boy	det
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 boy	amod
44	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sound	past	Thankee and thankee		all furniture		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	Thankee and thankee not said here			of furniture; much property	tree rules
3	stand	past	each article		the other's way		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location
4	get	to-infinitive	each article not said here	a look		at the little boy	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at boy=Asset

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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