Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 151

They were full, and so they left the pigeons, exchanging opinions about them, slipped in under the garden palings, and when they found the door leading into the house open, one of them, who was more than full, and therefore felt brave, hopped on to the threshold. "

Who acts: sparrows · What happens: be, leave, exchange, slip, find, lead · To what, where: pigeons, opinions, door, house, threshold

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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 full	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 left	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 full	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pigeons	det
10	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 left	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 exchanging	punct
12	exchanging	exchange	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 left	advcl
13	opinions	opinion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 exchanging	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 opinions	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slipped	punct
17	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 palings	case
19	under	under	ADP	_	22 palings	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 palings	det
21	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 palings	compound
22	palings	paling	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 slipped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 found	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 found	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 full	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obj
30	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 found	advcl
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leading	obl
34	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 leading	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 one	punct
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 found	parataxis
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 one	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 more	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 more	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 more	cop
42	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 one	conj
43	than	than	ADP	_	44 full	case
44	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 more	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 felt	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 felt	cc
47	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	48 felt	advmod
48	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 full	parataxis
49	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 felt	xcomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 hopped	punct
51	hopped	hop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 felt	conj
52	on	on	ADP	_	55 threshold	case
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 threshold	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 threshold	det
55	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 hopped	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 full	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sparrows = sparrow			full property	tree rules
2	leave	past	sparrows = sparrow	the pigeons			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme
3	exchange	gerund	sparrows = sparrow not said here	opinions		about sparrows = sparrow	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme
4	slip	past				in the garden palings	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in paling=Attribute
5	find	past	sparrows = sparrow	the door			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic
6	lead	gerund	sparrows = sparrow not said here		the house	open property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into house=Destination
7	is	past				than full; more property	tree rules
8	feel	past				brave, therefore property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
9	hop	participle			the threshold		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on threshold=Trajectory

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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