Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 77

You stood devoutly with folded hands; and father and mother were just as pious; and then the door was opened, and little sister Mary, who is not two years old yet, and who always dances when she hears music or singing, of whatever kind it may be, was put into the room--though she ought not to have been there--and then she began to dance, but could not keep time, because the tones were so long; and then she stood, first on the one leg, and bent her head forwards, and then on the other leg, and bent her head forwards--but all would not do.

Who acts: You, father, Mary, door, whatever, music · What happens: stand, fold, be, open, dance, hear · To what, where: Mary, door, music, room, one leg, head

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 (You, father, Mary, door), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	devoutly	devoutly	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hands	amod
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 pious	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 father	cc
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pious	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mother	cc
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 father	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pious	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 pious	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 pious	advmod
15	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 opened	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 opened	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 opened	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 opened	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 opened	aux:pass
22	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Mary	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Mary	cc
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sister	amod
26	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Mary	nmod:desc
27	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 old	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 old	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 old	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 two	advmod
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 old	obl:unmarked
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Mary	amod
35	yet	yet	ADV	_	34 old	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 dances	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 dances	cc
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 dances	nsubj
39	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 dances	advmod
40	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 hears	advmod
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 hears	nsubj
43	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 dances	conj
44	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 hears	obj
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 singing	cc
46	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 music	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 kind	punct
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 whatever	case
49	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	50 kind	nsubj
50	kind	kin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 hears	parataxis
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 be	nsubj
52	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 be	aux
53	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 kind	xcomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 put	punct
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 put	aux:pass
56	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 kind	conj
57	into	into	ADP	_	59 room	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 room	det
59	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 put	obl
60	--	--	PUNCT	_	63 ought	punct
61	though	though	SCONJ	_	63 ought	mark
62	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 ought	nsubj
63	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 put	conj
64	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 ought	advmod
65	to	to	PART	_	68 there	mark
66	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	68 there	aux
67	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	68 there	cop
68	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	64 not	conj
69	--	--	PUNCT	_	73 began	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 began	cc
71	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	73 began	advmod
72	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 began	nsubj
73	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 there	parataxis
74	to	to	PART	_	75 dance	mark
75	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	73 began	xcomp
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 keep	punct
77	but	but	CCONJ	_	80 keep	cc
78	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	80 keep	aux
79	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	80 keep	advmod
80	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	73 began	advcl
81	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 keep	obj
82	,	,	PUNCT	_	88 long	punct
83	because	because	SCONJ	_	88 long	mark
84	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	85 tones	det
85	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	88 long	nsubj
86	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	88 long	cop
87	so	so	ADV	_	88 long	advmod
88	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	80 keep	advmod
89	;	;	PUNCT	_	93 stood	punct
90	and	and	CCONJ	_	93 stood	cc
91	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	93 stood	advmod
92	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	93 stood	nsubj
93	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	73 began	conj
94	,	,	PUNCT	_	95 first	punct
95	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	93 stood	advmod
96	on	on	ADP	_	99 leg	case
97	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	99 leg	det
98	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	99 leg	nummod
99	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	93 stood	obl
100	,	,	PUNCT	_	102 bent	punct
101	and	and	CCONJ	_	102 bent	cc
102	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	93 stood	conj
103	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	104 head	nmod:poss
104	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	102 bent	obj
105	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	102 bent	advmod
106	,	,	PUNCT	_	112 leg	punct
107	and	and	CCONJ	_	112 leg	cc
108	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	112 leg	advmod
109	on	on	ADP	_	112 leg	case
110	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	112 leg	det
111	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	112 leg	amod
112	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	102 bent	obl
113	,	,	PUNCT	_	115 bent	punct
114	and	and	CCONJ	_	115 bent	cc
115	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	93 stood	conj
116	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	117 head	nmod:poss
117	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	115 bent	obj
118	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	115 bent	advmod
119	--	--	PUNCT	_	124 do	punct
120	but	but	CCONJ	_	124 do	cc
121	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	124 do	nsubj
122	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	124 do	aux
123	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	124 do	advmod
124	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	conj
125	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	You	Mary little sister			with folded hands; devoutly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fold	participle						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	father and mother				pious property	tree rules
4	open	past · passive		the door		then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	present	Mary little sister			yet; year	old property	tree rules
6	dance	present					always property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hear	present	door	music				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus
8	sing speech: express	gerund	door not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	kin	past	whatever					tree rules
10	be	may	music					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	put	past · passive	whatever not said here		the room			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»
12	is	to-infinitive · perfect	whatever not said here				there property	tree rules
13	begin	past	door			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
14	dance	to-infinitive	door not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
15	not keep	could	door not said here			time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
16	is	past	the tones				long property	tree rules
17	stand	past	door		the one leg	then	first property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
18	bend	past	door not said here	door's head	the other leg		forwards property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on leg=Location
19	bend	past	door not said here	door's head			forwards property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
20	not do	would	all					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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