Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 24

All along the street stood the people from the houses, in crowds, ready to join the procession.

What happens: stand, join · To what, where: people, houses, procession

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	All	all	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod
2	along	along	ADP	_	4 street	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 street	det
4	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stood	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 houses	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 houses	det
10	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crowds	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 crowds	case
13	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stood	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ready	punct
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 crowds	amod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 join	mark
17	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 procession	det
19	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 join	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		the people		the houses		along the street; in crowds; all property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme along street=Destination
2	join	to-infinitive		the procession					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent procession=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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