Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 50

But the first ball was not the last, and Emily could not stand it; it was a good thing, therefore, that summer brought with it rest, and exercise in the open air.

Who acts: first ball, Emily, ball, summer · What happens: not be, not stand, be, bring · To what, where: ball, good thing, exercise

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first ball, Emily, ball, summer), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 last	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ball	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 ball	amod
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 last	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 last	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 last	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 last	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stand	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stand	cc
11	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stand	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stand	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 stand	advmod
14	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 last	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stand	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 thing	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stand	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brought	punct
23	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	27 brought	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brought	punct
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 summer	det
26	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	nsubj
27	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	advcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 rest	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rest	nsubj
30	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 exercise	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 exercise	cc
33	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 air	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 air	det
36	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 air	amod
37	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 exercise	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the first ball		last property	tree rules
2	not stand	could	Emily	ball		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is a	past	ball	a good thing		tree rules
4	bring	past	that summer	exercise in the open air	with rest; therefore property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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