Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 85

Aunt wanted to come out, but the people before her, in their fright and heedlessness, slammed the door of the box; and there sat our aunt, and couldn't get out, and couldn't get in; that is to say, she couldn't get into the next box, for the partition was too high for her.

Who acts: Aunt, people, that, partition · What happens: want, come out, slam, sit, not get out, not get in · To what, where: door, aunt, next 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 (Aunt, people, that, partition), 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	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 come	mark
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 slammed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 slammed	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 slammed	nsubj
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 people	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fright	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 fright	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fright	nmod:poss
15	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 people	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heedlessness	cc
17	heedlessness	heedlessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fright	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct
19	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slammed	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 box	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 box	det
24	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 door	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 sat	advmod
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	parataxis
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 aunt	nmod:poss
30	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 get	cc
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 get	advmod
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sat	conj
36	out	out	ADV	_	35 get	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 get	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 get	cc
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 get	aux
40	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 get	advmod
41	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 get	conj
42	in	in	ADV	_	41 get	advmod
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 say	punct
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 say	nsubj:outer
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 say	cop
46	to	to	PART	_	47 say	mark
47	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	parataxis
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 get	punct
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 get	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 get	aux
51	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 get	advmod
52	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 say	ccomp
53	into	into	ADP	_	56 box	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 box	det
55	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 box	amod
56	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 get	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 high	punct
58	for	for	SCONJ	_	63 high	mark
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 partition	det
60	partition	partition	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 high	nsubj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 high	cop
62	too	too	ADV	_	63 high	advmod
63	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 get	conj
64	for	for	ADP	_	65 her	case
65	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 high	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	Aunt				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	come out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Aunt not said here			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	slam	past	the people before aunt and people's fright and heedlessness	the door of the box			vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
4	sit	past		our aunt	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aunt=Theme
5	not get out	could				out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not get in	could					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	be speech: assert	present	that			say property	tree rules
8	not get	could	aunt		the next box		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into box=Destination
9	is	past	the partition			for aunt; high property	tree rules
10	fright		people				nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=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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