Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 30

When she was out there, the festivities began with a song; each of the guests had written his own song, and each one sang his own song, for he thought that the best, and it was all one, all the same melody.

Who acts: Amack, festivities, one, Half, song, guest · What happens: be, begin, write, sing, think · To what, where: each, own song, one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amack, festivities, one, Half), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 there	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 there	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
4	out	out	ADV	_	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 began	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 festivities	det
8	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 song	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 song	det
12	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 written	punct
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 written	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 guests	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 guests	det
17	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 each	nmod
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 written	aux
19	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 began	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 song	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 song	amod
22	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 written	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sang	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sang	cc
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sang	nsubj
27	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 song	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 song	amod
30	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sang	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 thought	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sang	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 best	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 best	det
37	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 thought	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 one	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 one	cc
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 one	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 one	cop
42	all	all	ADV	_	43 one	advmod
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 began	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 melody	punct
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 melody	det:predet
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 melody	det
47	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 melody	amod
48	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 one	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Amack		out, there property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the festivities		with a song	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with song=Subeventuality
3	write	past · perfect · passive		each		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient song=Topic
4	sing speech: express	past	each one	guest's own song		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	Half			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	song	one and all same melody	all property	tree rules
7	sing		guest			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
8	sing		guest			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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