Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 88

It was Sunday morning, and you children stood round the table, singing the hymn that you sing every morning.

Who acts: deal, you · What happens: be, stand, sing · To what, where: Sunday morning, hymn

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 morning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 morning	cop
3	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 morning	compound
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stood	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 stood	nsubj
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 you	nmod:unmarked
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 morning	parataxis
10	round	round	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 singing	punct
14	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 stood	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hymn	det
16	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 singing	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 sing	obj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 sing	nsubj
19	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hymn	acl:relcl
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 morning	det
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sing	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	deal	Sunday morning			tree rules
2	stand	past	you			round the table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	gerund	you not said here	the hymn			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme
4	sing speech: express	present	you	the hymn	morning		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme

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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