Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 12

When they came to the tragic theatre, they all sat down on the amphitheatre steps, and thus a small part of the house was occupied by an audience, as it had been many centuries ago.

Who acts: signs, audience, part · What happens: come, sit down, occupy, be · To what, where: tragic theatre, small part

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (signs, audience, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:6994): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 theatre	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 theatre	det
6	tragic	tragic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 theatre	amod
7	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 sat	advmod
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 steps	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 steps	det
15	amphitheatre	amphitheatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 steps	compound
16	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 occupied	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 occupied	cc
19	thus	thus	ADV	_	27 occupied	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 part	det
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 part	amod
22	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 occupied	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 part	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 occupied	aux:pass
27	occupied	occupy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sat	conj
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 audience	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 audience	det
30	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 occupied	obl:agent
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ago	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 ago	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ago	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 ago	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 ago	cop
36	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 centuries	amod
37	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ago	obl:unmarked
38	ago	ago	ADV	_	27 occupied	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	signs = sign		the tragic theatre			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to theatre=Initial_Location
2	sit down	past	signs = sign				on the amphitheatre steps	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location
3	occupy	past · passive	a audience	a small part of the house			thus property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	is	past · perfect	part			century	ago property	tree rules

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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