Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 101

The clergymen stood humbly together in a corner, and looked as if they were preparing for a funeral, but it was a festival--only the amusement had not yet begun.

Who acts: clergymen, hall · What happens: stand, look, prepare, be, not begin · To what, where: corner, festival, amusement

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clergymen, hall), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clergymen	det
2	clergymen	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	5 together	advmod
5	together	together	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 corner	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 corner	det
8	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	parataxis
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 preparing	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 preparing	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 preparing	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 preparing	aux
16	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 looked	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 funeral	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 funeral	det
19	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 preparing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 festival	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 festival	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 festival	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 festival	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 festival	det
25	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 begun	punct
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 amusement	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 amusement	det
29	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 begun	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 begun	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 begun	advmod
32	yet	yet	ADV	_	33 begun	advmod
33	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stood	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the clergymen		a corner		together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
2	look	past						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	prepare	past · progressive	clergymen = clergyman				for a funeral	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for funeral=Beneficiary
4	is a	past	hall	a festival				tree rules
5	not begin	past · perfect · passive		the amusement		yet		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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