Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 37

There had been a great deal of talk on this subject while the basket was being packed, and during this conversation the eyes and the mouth of the furrier's daughter did not wear a very joyful expression.

Who acts: great deal, eyes · What happens: be, pack, not wear, deal · To what, where: basket, joyful expression, talk

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 (great deal, eyes), 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:pg27200:905): 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 been	expl
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 been	aux
3	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	amod
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 been	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 talk	case
8	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 subject	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 subject	det
11	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	nmod
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 packed	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 basket	det
14	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 packed	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 packed	aux
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 packed	aux:pass
17	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 been	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wear	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wear	cc
20	during	during	ADP	_	22 conversation	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 conversation	det
22	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wear	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 eyes	det
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 wear	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 mouth	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mouth	det
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eyes	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 daughter	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 furrier	det
30	furrier	furrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 daughter	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 furrier	case
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mouth	nmod
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 wear	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 wear	advmod
35	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 been	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 expression	det
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 joyful	advmod
38	joyful	joyful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 expression	amod
39	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wear	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 been	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past · perfect	a great deal of talk on this subject		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pack	past · progressive · passive		the basket			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	not wear	past · do-support	the eyes and the mouth of the furrier's daughter	a joyful expression		during this conversation	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent expression=Source
4	deal			talk on this subject			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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