Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 199

Then all those who had "Very good," or "Exceedingly good," came in front of the horse, and heard the beautiful story; while those who had "Middling," or "Tolerably good," in their books, were obliged to sit behind, and listen to the frightful tale.

Who acts: those · What happens: come, hear, have, oblige, sit, listen · To what, where: front, beautiful story, books, Middling

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 (those), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 came	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 those	det:predet
3	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 came	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 good	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 good	aux
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 good	punct
7	Very	very	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 those	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 those	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 those	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 good	cc
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
13	Exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	14 good	advmod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 those	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 those	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 those	punct
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 front	case
19	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 horse	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horse	det
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 front	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 heard	cc
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 story	det
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 story	amod
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 those	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 those	mark
31	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 heard	obj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 those	acl:relcl
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Middling	punct
35	Middling	middling	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 those	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 those	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 good	cc
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 good	punct
40	Tolerably	tolerably	ADV	_	41 good	advmod
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 those	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 those	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 those	punct
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 books	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 books	nmod:poss
46	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 heard	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 obliged	punct
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 obliged	aux:pass
49	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 heard	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 sit	mark
51	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 obliged	xcomp
52	behind	behind	ADV	_	51 sit	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 listen	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 listen	cc
55	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 sit	conj
56	to	to	ADP	_	59 tale	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 tale	det
58	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 tale	amod
59	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 listen	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	those		front of the horse	then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
2	hear	past		the beautiful story	stories's books			tree rules
3	have	past		Middling				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent middling=Patient
4	oblige	past · passive						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
5	sit	to-infinitive					behind property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	listen	infinitive					to the frightful tale	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=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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