Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 102

In the streets an official flogging was taking place, and bamboo canes were being broken on the shoulders of men of every high position, from the first to the ninth grade.

Who acts: official flogging · What happens: take, break · To what, where: place, streets, bamboo canes, shoulders

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (official flogging), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 streets	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 streets	det
3	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taking	obl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flogging	det
5	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flogging	amod
6	flogging	flogging	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taking	aux
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 broken	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 broken	cc
12	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 canes	compound
13	canes	cane	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 broken	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 broken	aux:pass
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 broken	aux:pass
16	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 taking	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 shoulders	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shoulders	det
19	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 broken	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 men	case
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 shoulders	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 position	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 position	det
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 position	amod
25	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 men	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 first	punct
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 first	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 first	det
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 broken	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 grade	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 grade	det
32	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 grade	amod
33	grade	grade	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 first	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 taking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · progressive	a official flogging	place		the streets			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in street=Location
2	break	past · passive		bamboo canes		the shoulders of men of every high position			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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