Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 90

You were standing quietly, with your hands folded, and your father and mother were looking just as serious, when the door opened, and your little sister Maria, who is not two years old, was brought into the room.

Who acts: You, father, door, little sister · What happens: stand, fold, look, open, be, bring · To what, where: hands, little sister, room

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, father, door, little sister), 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	_	17 looking	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looking	cc
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mother	cc
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	conj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looking	aux
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 standing	conj
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 serious	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 serious	advmod
20	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looking	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 opened	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 opened	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 opened	nsubj
25	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 serious	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 brought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 brought	cc
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 sister	nmod:poss
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sister	amod
30	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 brought	nsubj:pass
31	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sister	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 old	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 old	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 old	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 two	advmod
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 years	nummod
37	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 old	obl:unmarked
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sister	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sister	punct
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 brought	aux:pass
41	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 opened	conj
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 room	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 room	det
44	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 brought	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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
3	look	past · progressive	your father and mother				serious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	open	past	the door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	your little sister			year	old property	tree rules
6	bring	past · passive		your little sister	the room			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into room=Destination

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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