Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 83

The people came rushing out, and our aunt was the last in the box, "on the second tier, left-hand side, for from there the scenery looks best," she used to say. "

Who acts: people, aunt, scenery · What happens: come, rush out, be, look, use, say · To what, where: second tier, box · 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 (people, aunt, scenery), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 came	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 rushing	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 last	cc
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 aunt	nmod:poss
9	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 last	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 last	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 last	det
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 box	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 box	det
15	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 last	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 tier	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tier	det
20	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 tier	amod
21	tier	tier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 side	punct
23	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 side	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 side	compound
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tier	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 looks	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 there	case
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 there	case
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 looks	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 scenery	det
32	scenery	scenery	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looks	nsubj
33	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
34	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 looks	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 used	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 used	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 used	nsubj
38	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 looks	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 say	mark
40	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 used	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 looks	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the people	the second tier and left hand side		tree rules
2	rush out	gerund	the people not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	our aunt	the box	last property	tree rules
4	look in a quote	present	the scenery		well property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for there=Theme
5	use	past	aunt			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	aunt not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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