Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 114

More and more friends kept arriving, till the mice were nearly treading each other to death; for the bridal pair now stood in the doorway, and none could pass in or out.

Who acts: More friends, mice, none · What happens: keep, arrive, tread, stand, pass · To what, where: each, doorway

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (More friends, mice, none), 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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 friends	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 more	cc
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 More	conj
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	arriving	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 treading	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 treading	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mice	det
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 treading	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 treading	aux
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	13 treading	advmod
13	treading	tread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 arriving	conj
14	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 treading	obj
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 each	fixed
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 death	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 treading	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stood	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 pair	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pair	det
21	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pair	amod
22	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obl
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 stood	advmod
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 doorway	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 doorway	det
27	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pass	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pass	cc
30	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	32 pass	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 pass	aux
32	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stood	advcl
33	in	in	ADV	_	32 pass	advmod
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 out	cc
35	out	out	ADV	_	33 in	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	More friends					tree rules
2	arrive	gerund	More friends not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tread	past · progressive	the mice	each			to death; nearly property	tree rules
4	stand	past	More friends not said here		the doorway	now	for the bridal pair	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location
5	pass	could	none					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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