Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 29

"Oh, no!" they cried, and then they stood up so gracefully it was quite a pleasure to look at them.

Who acts: Luk · What happens: cry, stand up, be, look · To what, where: pleasure

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 (Luk), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 stood	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 stood	compound:prt
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 gracefully	advmod
16	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	21 pleasure	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pleasure	expl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pleasure	cop
19	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	21 pleasure	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pleasure	det
21	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 pleasure	acl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 look	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Luk				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand up	past	Luk		then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		quite pleasure		gracefully property	tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive	Luk not said here			at Luk	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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