Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 162

There were no people either here or in the adjoining room; only a cradle stood there, in which was a child.

Who acts: people, cradle · What happens: be, stand

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 (people, cradle), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	either	either	CCONJ	_	6 here	cc:preconj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 people	advmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 room	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	adjoining	adjoining	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	compound
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 here	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 cradle	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cradle	det
15	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	nsubj
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stood	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 child	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 child	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 child	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 child	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no people	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	a cradle	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past			in a child	tree rules

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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