Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 114

But in the hall the baron's daughter flew to the place of honour at the end of the table--she was worthy to sit there; the pastor's son had the seat next to her; the two sat there as if they were a bridal pair.

Who acts: daughter, son, two, sons · What happens: fly, be, sit, have · To what, where: hall, seat

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 (daughter, son, two, sons), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baron	det
6	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 baron	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	nsubj
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 honour	case
14	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 place	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 end	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 end	det
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 table	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 table	det
20	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 end	nmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 worthy	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 worthy	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 worthy	cop
24	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flew	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sit	mark
26	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 worthy	csubj
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 sit	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pastor	det
30	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 son	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 pastor	case
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flew	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 seat	det
35	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
36	next	next	ADV	_	33 had	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 next	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 sat	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 two	det
41	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 sat	nsubj
42	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 had	conj
43	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 sat	advmod
44	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	50 pair	case
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 as	fixed
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 pair	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 pair	cop
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 pair	det
49	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 pair	amod
50	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sat	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the baron's daughter		the hall	at the end of the table	to the place of honour	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in hall=Location
2	is	past	daughter				worthy property	tree rules
3	sit	to-infinitive			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	the pastor's son	the seat			next property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient
5	sit	past	the two		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	sons = son				as a bridal pair	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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