Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 37

There sat the be-praised poet, the tame one; all the guests paid homage to him, and he was happy.

Who acts: guests, editor · What happens: sit, praise, be, pay · To what, where: praised poet, homage, editor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, editor), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 sat	expl
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 poet	det
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 poet	cop
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 poet	punct
6	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 poet	amod
7	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poet	appos
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 paid	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 guests	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 guests	det
15	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 paid	nsubj
16	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
17	homage	homage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paid	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 paid	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 happy	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 happy	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 happy	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 happy	cop
24	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past				there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	praise	participle						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	infinitive		the praised poet				tree rules
4	pay	past	all guests	homage	editor			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Asset
5	is	past	editor				happy 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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