Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 63

They knew perfectly well what was cooking at every fire throughout the city, from the chamberlain's to the cobbler's; the court-ladies danced and clapped their hands.

Who acts: Fie, court ladies · What happens: know, cook, dance, clap · To what, where: fire, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fie, court ladies), 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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	2 knew	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 cooking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cooking	aux
7	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 knew	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cooking	obl
11	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cooking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chamberlain	punct
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 chamberlain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chamberlain	det
17	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cooking	conj
18	's	's	PART	_	17 chamberlain	case
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 cobbler	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cobbler	det
21	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chamberlain	nmod
22	's	's	PART	_	21 cobbler	case
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 danced	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ladies	det
25	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ladies	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 court	punct
27	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 danced	nsubj
28	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 clapped	cc
30	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 danced	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hands	nmod:poss
32	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 clapped	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Fie				perfectly, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cook	past · progressive			every fire	throughout the city		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	dance	past	the court ladies					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	clap	past	the court ladies not said here	ladies's hands				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme

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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