Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 41

Often the flies were quite full of good company; it was said that generals' wives and privy councillors' wives had been up there.

Who acts: flies, wives · What happens: be, say · To what, where: machinist · 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 (flies, wives), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	6 full	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flies	det
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 full	advmod
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 company	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 company	amod
9	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux:pass
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 full	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 there	mark
15	generals	general	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wives	nmod:poss
16	'	's	PART	_	15 generals	case
17	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wives	nmod:poss
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 councillors	cc
19	privy	privy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 councillors	amod
20	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wives	conj
21	'	's	PART	_	17 wives	case
22	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 there	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 there	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 there	cop
25	up	up	ADV	_	26 there	advmod
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 said	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the flies		of good company; full, often property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · passive		machinist		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	is	past · perfect	generals's wives and privy councillors's wives		there property	tree rules

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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