Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 8

One half of the company was already seated at the card-table, the other half awaited the result of the stereotype preliminary observation of the lady of the house:

Who acts: other half · What happens: seat, await, result, observe · To what, where: One half, card table, result, preliminary observation, lady

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other half), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 half	nummod
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 seated	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 company	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 company	det
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 half	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seated	aux:pass
7	already	already	ADV	_	8 seated	advmod
8	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 table	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
11	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 table	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 card	punct
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seated	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 awaited	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 half	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 half	amod
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 awaited	nsubj
18	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seated	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 result	det
20	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 awaited	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 observation	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 observation	det
23	stereotype	stereotype	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 preliminary	compound
24	preliminary	preliminary	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 observation	compound
25	observation	observation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 result	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 lady	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lady	det
28	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 observation	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 house	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lady	nmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seat	past · passive		One half of the company	the card table	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
2	await	past	the other half	the result of the preliminary observation of the lady of the house		tree rules
3	result			the preliminary observation of the lady of the house		nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
4	observe			the lady of the house		nom observation «act transitive»: of=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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