Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 150

The sparrows ate lustily; they listened attentively, and even stood in the ranks with the others, but it did not suit them at all.

Who acts: sparrows, chatter · What happens: eat, listen, stand, not suit · To what, where: ranks, sparrows, all

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrows, chatter), 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	2 sparrows	det
2	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lustily	lustily	ADV	_	3 ate	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 listened	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 listened	nsubj
7	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
8	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	7 listened	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stood	cc
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 stood	advmod
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 ranks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ranks	det
15	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stood	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 others	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 others	det
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stood	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 suit	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 suit	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 suit	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 suit	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 suit	advmod
24	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ate	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 suit	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 suit	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the sparrows			lustily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen	past	sparrows = sparrow			attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	stand	past	the sparrows not said here		the ranks	with the others	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rank=Location
4	not suit	past · do-support	chatter	sparrows = sparrow	all		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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