Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 94

When they heard it they were like people intoxicated; however it must have been with drinking tea, which is quite a Chinese custom.

Who acts: waltzes, permission, drinking tea · What happens: hear, be, intoxicate · To what, where: permission, people, Chinese custom

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waltzes, permission, drinking tea), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 people	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 people	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	parataxis
9	intoxicated	intoxicate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 people	acl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
11	however	however	ADV	_	18 tea	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tea	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tea	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 tea	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 tea	cop
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 tea	case
17	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tea	compound
18	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 custom	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 custom	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 custom	cop
22	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	25 custom	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 custom	det
24	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 custom	amod
25	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tea	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	waltzes = waltz	permission		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is	past	waltzes = waltz		like people	tree rules
3	intoxicate	participle		people not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	must · perfect	permission		with drinking tea; however property	tree rules
5	is a	present	drinking tea	quite Chinese custom		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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