Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 65

Grand people who came too late, when the performance had begun, and young people, who could not always watch the time, were tied up outside, and had list slippers put on their feet, with which they were allowed to go in before the beginning of the next act, and they had muzzles too.

Who acts: Grand people, performance, young people, list slippers, performances · What happens: come, begin, not watch, tie up, have, put · To what, where: feet, performances, beginning, muzzles, next act

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 (Grand people, performance, young people, list slippers), 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	Grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 late	advmod
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begun	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 begun	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 performance	det
10	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 begun	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 begun	aux
12	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 came	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 watch	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 watch	cc
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 watch	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 watch	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 watch	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 watch	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 watch	advmod
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 watch	advmod
22	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 begun	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 watch	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tied	punct
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tied	aux:pass
27	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 watch	parataxis
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 tied	compound:prt
29	outside	outside	ADV	_	27 tied	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 had	cc
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tied	conj
33	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slippers	compound
34	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 put	nsubj
35	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 had	ccomp
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 feet	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 feet	nmod:poss
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 put	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 allowed	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 allowed	obl
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 allowed	nsubj:pass
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 allowed	aux:pass
44	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 put	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 go	mark
46	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 allowed	xcomp
47	in	in	ADV	_	46 go	advmod
48	before	before	ADP	_	50 beginning	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 beginning	det
50	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 go	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 act	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 act	det
53	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 act	amod
54	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 beginning	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 had	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 had	cc
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 had	nsubj
58	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 allowed	conj
59	muzzles	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 had	obj
60	too	too	ADV	_	58 had	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Grand people				late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past · perfect	the performance					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	not watch	could	young people			time	always property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	tie up	past · passive					outside property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»
5	have	past						tree rules
6	put	present	list slippers		performances's feet			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on foot=Destination
7	allow	past · passive		performances = performance				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
8	go in not said to happen	to-infinitive	performances = performance not said here			before the beginning of the next act		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before beginning=Location
9	have	past	performances = performance	muzzles				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muzzle=Patient
10	begin			the next act				nom beginning «event 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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