Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 43

Our aunt had been there several times, as well when there was a tragedy as when there was a ballet; for the pieces in which there were the greatest number of characters on the stage were the most interesting to see from the flies.

Who acts: aunt, tragedy, greatest number · What happens: be, see

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 (aunt, tragedy, greatest number), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 there	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 times	amod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 there	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 as	punct
9	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	5 there	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 as	fixed
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 was	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tragedy	det
15	tragedy	tragedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
16	as	as	ADP	_	21 ballet	case
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 was	advmod
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ballet	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ballet	det
21	ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 pieces	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 pieces	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pieces	det
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 there	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 were	obl
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 were	expl
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pieces	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 number	det
31	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 number	amod
32	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 were	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 characters	case
34	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 interesting	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 stage	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stage	det
37	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 characters	nmod
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 interesting	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 interesting	det
40	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	41 interesting	advmod
41	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 number	acl:relcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 see	mark
43	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 interesting	csubj
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 flies	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 flies	det
46	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 see	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	Our aunt		time	for the pieces; there property	tree rules
2	be	past	a tragedy	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past				as a ballet	tree rules
4	is	past	the greatest number not said here			of characters on the stage; interesting property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive				from the flies	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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