Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 40

It used to be the custom in those days that in the evening performances in the only theatre the town possessed, spectators were admitted to the part called the "flies," over the stage, and every machinist had one or two places to give away.

Who acts: machinery, town, days · What happens: use, be, possess, admit, call, have · To what, where: custom, town, spectators, part, flies, one places · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (machinery, town, days), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 custom	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 custom	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 custom	det
6	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 custom	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 had	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 performances	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 performances	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 performances	compound
14	performances	performance	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 that	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 theatre	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 theatre	det
17	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 theatre	amod
18	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 performances	nmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 town	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 theatre	conj
21	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 town	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 admitted	punct
23	spectators	spectator	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 admitted	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 admitted	aux:pass
25	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 town	acl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 part	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 part	det
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 admitted	obl
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 part	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 flies	det
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 flies	punct
32	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 called	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 that	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 that	punct
35	over	over	ADP	_	37 stage	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stage	det
37	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 that	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 had	cc
40	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 machinist	det
41	machinist	machinist	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 days	acl:relcl
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 places	nummod
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 two	cc
45	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 one	conj
46	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 had	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 give	mark
48	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 places	acl
49	away	away	ADV	_	48 give	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	machinery					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive	machinery not said here	the custom		day		tree rules
3	possess	participle		the town not said here				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	admit speech: other	past · passive	the town not said here	spectators	the part			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to part=Recipient
5	call	participle		the part not said here	the flies			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fly=Recipient
6	have	past	that days	one places				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
7	give away	to-infinitive	that days not said here	one places not said here			away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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