Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 56

"The 'Judgment of Solomon' was over," he said, "and all the people had gone away, up stairs and down stairs; but now the real play began, the after-piece, which was the best of all," said the agent. "

Who acts: Judgment, people, real play, agent · What happens: be, say, go away, begin, judge · To what, where: stairs, Solomon · 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 (Judgment, people, real play, agent), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Judgment	det
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 Judgment	punct
4	Judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 over	nmod:poss
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Solomon	case
6	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Judgment	nmod
7	'	's	PART	_	4 Judgment	case
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 over	cop
9	over	over	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 over	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 over	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 people	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gone	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 gone	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stairs	punct
24	up	up	ADP	_	25 stairs	case
25	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gone	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stairs	cc
27	down	down	ADP	_	28 stairs	case
28	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stairs	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 began	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 began	cc
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 began	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 play	det
33	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 play	amod
34	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 began	nsubj
35	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 said	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 best	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 best	det
38	after	after	ADP	_	40 piece	case
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 after	punct
40	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 best	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 best	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 best	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 best	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 best	det
45	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 began	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 all	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 best	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 began	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 began	punct
50	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 agent	det
52	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 said	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past					over property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Judgment					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	go away in a quote	past · perfect	all people		stairs and stairs		away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up stair=Initial_Location
4	begin in a quote	past	the real play			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	is in a quote	past				after piece	of all; good property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	the agent					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	judge in a quote			Solomon				nom judgment «cognition transitive»: of=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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