Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 46

The sausage was one of the weightiest reasons why the worthy management refused in future to have any spectators up in the flies.

Who acts: sausage, worthy management · What happens: be, refuse, not have up · To what, where: one, future, spectators

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 (sausage, worthy management), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sausage	det
2	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 reasons	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reasons	det
7	weightiest	weighty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 reasons	amod
8	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 refused	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 management	det
11	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 management	amod
12	management	management	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 refused	nsubj
13	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reasons	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 future	case
15	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 refused	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 have	mark
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 refused	xcomp
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 spectators	det
19	spectators	spectator	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	17 have	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 flies	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flies	det
23	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the sausage	one		of the weightiest reasons	tree rules
2	refuse	past	the worthy management		future		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not have up	to-infinitive	the worthy management not said here	any spectators		in the flies	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectator=Patient

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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