Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 109

For to-day, however, she would allow it; and they must shut him in the empty cage that was standing in the window.

Who acts: DAME, schoolboys, empty cage · What happens: allow, shut, stand · To what, where: lark, Clerk, empty cage, window

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DAME, schoolboys, empty cage), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 day	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 to	punct
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 allow	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	10 allow	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 allow	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 allow	aux
10	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 allow	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 shut	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shut	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shut	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 shut	aux
16	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 allow	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shut	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 cage	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cage	det
20	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cage	amod
21	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shut	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 standing	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 standing	aux
24	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 cage	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 window	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 window	det
27	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 standing	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	would	DAME	lark		day	however property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
2	shut	must	schoolboys = schoolboy	Clerk	the empty cage			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	stand	past · progressive	the empty cage		the window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in window=Location

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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