Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 6

"I was giving a representation," he said, "in the hall of the posting-house in the little town of Slagelse; there was a splendid audience, entirely juvenile excepting two respectable matrons.

Who acts: man, splendid audience, juvenile · What happens: give, say, be, except · To what, where: representation, hall, two respectable matrons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, splendid audience, juvenile), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 giving	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 giving	aux
4	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 representation	det
6	representation	representation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 giving	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hall	det
15	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
18	posting	posting	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 house	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 posting	punct
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hall	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 town	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 town	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 town	amod
24	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 house	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Slagelse	case
26	Slagelse	Slagelse	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 town	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 was	punct
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 audience	det
31	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 audience	amod
32	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 was	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 juvenile	punct
34	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	35 juvenile	advmod
35	juvenile	juvenile	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 audience	appos
36	excepting	except	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 juvenile	acl
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 matrons	nummod
38	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 matrons	amod
39	matrons	matron	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 excepting	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	give in a quote	past · progressive	man	a representation		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent representation=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	man		the hall of the posting house in the little town of Slagelse	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be in a quote	past	a splendid audience		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	except in a quote	gerund	juvenile not said here	two respectable matrons		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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