Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 5

Up in the garret three little children were playing by the light of my beams; the eldest was perhaps six years old, the youngest certainly not more than two. '

Who acts: three little children, eldest, my · What happens: play, be, light, beam · To what, where: beams

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three little children, eldest, my), 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	Up	up	ADV	_	9 playing	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 garret	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 garret	det
4	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Up	obl
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 children	nummod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 playing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 playing	aux
9	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 light	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 playing	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 beams	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 beams	nmod:poss
15	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 light	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 old	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eldest	det
18	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 old	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 old	cop
20	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	23 old	advmod
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 old	obl:unmarked
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 playing	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 youngest	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 youngest	det
26	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 old	obl
27	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	31 two	advmod
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 two	advmod
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	31 two	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	29 more	fixed
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 youngest	nummod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 old	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	three little children			by the light of my beams	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the eldest		year	the youngest obl; old, perhaps property	tree rules
3	light			my beams			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
4	beam		my				nom beam «communication 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: «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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