Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 82

The poisonous flies and gnats swarmed around by thousands; in vain one waved myrtle-branches about like mad; the audacious insect population did not cease to sting; nor was there a single person in the well-crammed carriage whose face was not swollen and sore from their ravenous bites.

Who acts: audacious insect population, single person, face, flies · What happens: swarm around, wave, not cease, sting, be, cram · To what, where: poisonous flies, ravenous bites

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (audacious insect population, single person, face, flies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flies	det
2	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flies	amod
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gnats	cc
5	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flies	conj
6	swarmed	swarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 flies	acl
7	around	around	ADV	_	6 swarmed	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 thousands	case
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swarmed	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 one	case
12	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	waved	wave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 branches	amod
15	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 branches	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 myrtle	punct
17	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
18	about	about	ADV	_	20 mad	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 mad	case
20	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 branches	amod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 cease	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 population	det
23	audacious	audacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 population	amod
24	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 population	compound
25	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cease	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cease	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 cease	advmod
28	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 one	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sting	mark
30	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cease	xcomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 there	punct
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	34 there	cc
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 there	cop
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 cease	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 person	det
36	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 person	amod
37	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 there	nsubj
38	in	in	ADP	_	43 carriage	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 carriage	det
40	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 crammed	advmod
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 well	punct
42	crammed	cram	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 carriage	amod
43	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 person	nmod
44	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	45 face	nmod:poss
45	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 swollen	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 swollen	cop
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 swollen	advmod
48	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 carriage	acl:relcl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 sore	cc
50	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 swollen	conj
51	from	from	ADP	_	54 bites	case
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 bites	nmod:poss
53	ravenous	ravenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 bites	amod
54	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 sore	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swarm around	participle		the poisonous flies and gnats not said here		by thousands; around property	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by thousand=Location
2	wave	participle					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not cease	past · do-support	the audacious insect population				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	sting	to-infinitive	the audacious insect population not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	a single person in the crammed carriage			there property	tree rules
6	cram	participle				well property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not is	past	face			swollen property	tree rules
8	be		face not said here		flies's ravenous bites		tree rules
9	bite		flies = fly				nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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