Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 89

You were standing quietly, with your hands folded, and your father and mother.

Who acts: You · What happens: stand, fold · To what, where: hands

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 (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 standing	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 standing	aux
3	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 standing	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hands	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 standing	obl
9	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hands	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 father	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 father	cc
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 standing	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mother	cc
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	You					with your hands; quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fold	participle		your hands not said here					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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