Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 57

After this speech was made, the old ones crept into their shells, and never more came out.

Who acts: old ones, more · What happens: make, creep, come out · To what, where: speech, shells

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old ones, more), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 speech	det
3	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 crept	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ones	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 crept	nsubj
10	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 shells	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shells	nmod:poss
13	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 crept	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crept	conj
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		this speech			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	creep	past	the old ones		noise's shells		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into shell=Destination
3	come out	past	more			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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