Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 68

Plays that are neglected now-a-days by the great public were ran after thirty years ago, and listened to till the tears ran down the cheeks of the audience.

Who acts: great public, Plays, tears · What happens: neglect, be, listen, run down · To what, where: Plays, cheeks

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 (great public, Plays, tears), 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	Plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ran	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 neglected	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 neglected	aux:pass
4	neglected	neglect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Plays	acl:relcl
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 days	advmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 now	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 days	det
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 a	punct
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 neglected	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 public	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 public	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 public	amod
13	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 neglected	obl
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ran	cop
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 years	case
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ran	obl
19	ago	ago	ADV	_	18 years	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 listened	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 listened	cc
22	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ran	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 listened	obl
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 ran	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tears	det
26	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ran	nsubj
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 listened	advcl
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 ran	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cheeks	det
30	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ran	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 audience	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 audience	det
33	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cheeks	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	neglect	present · passive	the great public	Plays	day		vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	past	Plays		year	run property	tree rules
3	listen	past	Plays not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	run down	past	the tears	the cheeks of the audience			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=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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