Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 144

Out of a small tavern in one of the streets there were sounds of singing and of unhallowed laughter, from people who drank the night through to forget that the plague was at their doors, and that they might be put into the wagon as the others had been.

Who acts: sounds, people, plague · What happens: sing, unhallow, drink, forget, be, put · To what, where: doors, sounds, wagon

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sounds, people, plague), 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	Out	out	ADP	_	5 tavern	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 tavern	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tavern	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tavern	amod
5	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tavern	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 streets	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 streets	det
10	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 streets	acl:relcl
13	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 singing	mark
15	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 sounds	acl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 laughter	cc
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 laughter	case
18	unhallowed	unhallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 laughter	amod
19	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 singing	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 people	punct
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 people	case
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tavern	appos
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 drank	nsubj
24	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 people	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 night	det
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drank	obl:unmarked
27	through	through	ADV	_	24 drank	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 forget	mark
29	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 drank	advcl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 been	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 plague	det
32	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 been	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 doors	cop
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 doors	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 doors	nmod:poss
36	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 plague	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 put	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 put	cc
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 put	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 put	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 put	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 put	aux:pass
43	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 doors	conj
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 wagon	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 wagon	det
46	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 put	obl
47	as	as	ADP	_	49 others	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 others	det
49	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 put	obl
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 been	aux
51	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 forget	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tavern	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	sounds not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	unhallow	participle						tree rules
3	drink	past	people			night	through property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	forget	to-infinitive	people not said here					tree rules
5	is	past			sounds's doors			tree rules
6	put	might · passive		sounds = sound	the wagon		as the others	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
7	be	past · perfect	the plague					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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