Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 116
Not only the guests but other people were walking in the garden, who were allowed to witness the splendor and the festivities.
Who acts: guests, other people · What happens: walk, allow, witness · To what, where: garden, other people, splendor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, other people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:976): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 guests | advmod |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 guests | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guests | det |
| 4 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 walking | nsubj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 people | cc |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guests | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 walking | aux |
| 9 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 allowed | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 allowed | aux:pass |
| 16 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 people | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 witness | mark |
| 18 | witness | witness | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 allowed | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 splendor | det |
| 20 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 witness | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 festivities | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 festivities | det |
| 23 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 splendor | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | the guests but other people | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | allow | past · passive | other people | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | witness not said to happen | to-infinitive | other people not said here | the splendor and the festivities | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splendor=Beneficiary |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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