Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 58

They slept; the young couple governed in the forest, and had a numerous progeny, but they were never boiled, and never came on the silver dishes; so from this they concluded that the manor-house had fallen to ruins, and that all the men in the world were extinct; and as no one contradicted them, so, of course it was so.

Who acts: noise, young couple, manor house, men, one · What happens: sleep, govern, have, not boil, not come, conclude · To what, where: forest, numerous progeny, noise, silver dishes, this

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 (noise, young couple, manor house, men), 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	2 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 governed	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 couple	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 couple	amod
6	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 governed	nsubj
7	governed	govern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slept	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 governed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 governed	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 progeny	det
15	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 progeny	amod
16	progeny	progeny	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 boiled	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 boiled	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 boiled	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 boiled	aux:pass
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 boiled	advmod
22	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 had	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 came	advmod
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 boiled	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 dishes	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dishes	det
29	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dishes	compound
30	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 came	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 concluded	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	36 concluded	advmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 this	case
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 concluded	obl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 concluded	nsubj
36	concluded	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slept	conj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 fallen	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 house	det
39	manor	manor	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 house	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 manor	punct
41	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fallen	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 fallen	aux
43	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 concluded	ccomp
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 ruins	case
45	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fallen	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 extinct	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 extinct	cc
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 extinct	mark
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 men	det:predet
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 men	det
51	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 extinct	nsubj
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 world	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 world	det
54	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 men	nmod
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 extinct	cop
56	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fallen	conj
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 contradicted	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 contradicted	cc
59	as	as	SCONJ	_	62 contradicted	mark
60	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	61 one	det
61	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 contradicted	nsubj
62	contradicted	contradict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slept	parataxis
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 contradicted	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 so	punct
65	so	so	ADV	_	71 so	advmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 so	punct
67	of	of	ADP	_	69 it	case
68	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 of	fixed
69	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 so	obl
70	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 so	cop
71	so	so	ADV	_	62 contradicted	conj
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	noise				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	govern	past	the young couple		the forest		vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	the young couple not said here	a numerous progeny			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progeny=Patient
4	not boil	past · passive		noise			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	not come	past			the silver dishes		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dish=Location
6	conclude	past	noise		this		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	fall	past · perfect	the manor house			to ruins	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ruin=Theme
8	is	past	all men in the world			extinct property	tree rules
9	contradict	past	no one	noise			tree rules
10	is	past	no one not said here			of house; so property	tree rules

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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