Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 64

The box-keepers were at their posts, and every spectator had to show his ghostly pass-book, that it might be decided if he was to be admitted with hands loose or bound, and with or without a muzzle.

Who acts: box keepers, spectator · What happens: be, have, show, decide, admit · To what, where: posts, ghostly pass book, book, business

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 (box keepers, spectator), 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	4 keepers	det
2	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keepers	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 box	punct
4	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 posts	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 posts	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 posts	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 posts	nmod:poss
8	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 spectator	det
12	spectator	spectator	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 posts	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 show	mark
15	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 book	nmod:poss
17	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 book	amod
18	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 book	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 pass	punct
20	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 show	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 decided	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 decided	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 decided	nsubj:pass
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 decided	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 decided	aux:pass
26	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 had	conj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 admitted	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 admitted	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 admitted	aux:pass
30	to	to	PART	_	32 admitted	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 admitted	aux:pass
32	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 decided	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 hands	case
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 admitted	obl
35	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 admitted	xcomp
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 bound	cc
37	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 loose	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 muzzle	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 muzzle	cc
40	with	with	ADP	_	44 muzzle	case
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 without	cc
42	without	without	ADP	_	40 with	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 muzzle	det
44	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 posts	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 posts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the box keepers		keepers's posts and a muzzle		tree rules
2	have	past	every spectator				tree rules
3	show	to-infinitive	every spectator not said here	business's ghostly pass book			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent book=Recipient
4	decide	might · passive		book			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
5	admit speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		business		with hands; loose property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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