Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 81

“Stand round!” said she; and all the ladies stood round her whilst the kissing was going on.

Who acts: Superbe, ladies, kissing · What happens: stand, say, go on · 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 (Superbe, ladies, kissing), 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 Stand	punct
2	Stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 Stand	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stand	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stand	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 all	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 ladies	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ladies	det
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	round	round	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	obl
16	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	20 going	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kissing	det
18	kissing	kissing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 going	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 stood	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	20 going	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stand in a quote	infinitive		round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: express	past	Superbe		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stand	past	all ladies	round Superbe	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go on	past · progressive	the kissing		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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