Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 128

Thousands of people gazed at the balloon, and the old maid who was in the garden saw it also; for she stood at the open window of the garret, by which hung the cage containing the linnet, who then had no water-glass, but was obliged to be contented with an old cup.

Who acts: Thousands, old maid, maid, linnet · What happens: gaze, see, stand, hang, contain, have · To what, where: balloon, open window, cage, linnet, water glass

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 (Thousands, old maid, maid, linnet), 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	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gazed	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 people	case
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
4	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 balloon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 balloon	det
7	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gazed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maid	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 maid	amod
12	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 was	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 maid	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 garden	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 garden	det
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	obl
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gazed	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	obj
20	also	also	ADV	_	18 saw	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stood	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 stood	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stood	nsubj
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gazed	parataxis
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 window	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 window	det
27	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 window	amod
28	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 garret	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 garret	det
31	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 window	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hung	punct
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 hung	nsubj
35	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stood	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cage	det
37	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hung	obj
38	containing	contain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 hung	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 linnet	det
40	linnet	linnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 containing	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 had	punct
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 had	nsubj
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 had	advmod
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 linnet	acl:relcl
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	48 glass	det
46	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 glass	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 water	punct
48	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 had	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 obliged	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 obliged	cc
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 obliged	aux:pass
52	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 stood	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	55 contented	mark
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 contented	aux:pass
55	contented	content	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 obliged	xcomp
56	with	with	ADP	_	59 cup	case
57	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 cup	det
58	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 cup	amod
59	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 contented	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	Thousands of people				at the balloon	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at balloon=Theme
2	see	past	the old maid	balloon				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	stand	past	maid		the open window of the garret			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
4	hang	past		the cage				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Patient
5	contain	gerund		the linnet				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot linnet=Theme
6	have	past	the linnet	no water glass		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
7	oblige	past · passive	maid not said here					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
8	content	to-infinitive · passive	maid not said here				with a old cup	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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