Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 94

The old people were very active and industrious, they were never idle for even a single hour.

Who acts: old people, people · What happens: be, not be

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: who acts (old people, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 active	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 active	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 active	advmod
6	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 industrious	cc
8	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 active	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 idle	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 idle	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 idle	cop
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 idle	advmod
13	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 active	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 hour	case
15	even	even	ADV	_	18 hour	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hour	det
17	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hour	amod
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 idle	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 active	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old people		active property	tree rules
2	be		the old people not said here			tree rules
3	not is	past	people	hour	idle property	tree rules

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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