Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 124

Two young Roman girls, who sat as models to the artists, took part in the dance and in the festivity.

Who acts: Two young Roman girls · What happens: sit, take · To what, where: part, dance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two young Roman girls), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 girls	nummod
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girls	amod
3	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girls	amod
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sat	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 models	case
9	models	model	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sat	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 artists	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 artists	det
12	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 dance	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dance	det
18	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 festivity	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 festivity	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 festivity	det
22	festivity	festivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dance	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Two young Roman girls					as models; to the artists	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	Two young Roman girls not said here	part		the dance and the festivity			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in dance=Location

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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