Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 7

I saw a whole troop of little ones, all of one family, and among them was a little sister.

Who acts: I, curtain · What happens: see, be · To what, where: whole troop

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, curtain), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 troop	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 troop	amod
5	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 ones	case
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 troop	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 ones	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 family	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 family	nummod
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 all	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sister	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sister	cc
16	among	among	ADP	_	21 sister	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sister	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sister	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sister	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sister	amod
21	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	a whole troop of little ones					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer troop=Stimulus
2	is	past	curtain					among a little sister	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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