Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 12

All the people, amongst them Karen too, streamed towards the castle, where the little princess, in fine white clothes, stood before the window and allowed herself to be stared at.

Who acts: people, Karen · What happens: stream, stand, allow, stare · To what, where: fine white clothes, window, Karen

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Karen), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 people	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 streamed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Karen	punct
5	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	7 Karen	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Karen	nsubj
7	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	10 streamed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 too	punct
10	streamed	stream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 streamed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 princess	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 princess	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 princess	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 princess	amod
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 castle	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 clothes	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 clothes	case
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 clothes	amod
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 clothes	amod
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 streamed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 streamed	parataxis
26	before	before	ADP	_	28 window	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 window	det
28	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 allowed	cc
30	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stood	conj
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 allowed	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	34 stared	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 stared	aux:pass
34	stared	stare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 allowed	xcomp
35	at	at	ADP	_	34 stared	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 streamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stream	participle	all people amongst Karen		fine white clothes	towards the castle and the little princess	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in clothes=Location
2	stand	past			the window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before window=Location
3	allow	past		Karen			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer herself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	stare not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Karen not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.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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