Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 116

The sharp-tongued cavalier who had caused the flute to be played, and who was the child of his parents, flew headlong into the fowl-house, but not he alone.

Who acts: sharp tongued cavalier · What happens: cause, play, be, fly · To what, where: flute, child, fowl house

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 (sharp tongued cavalier), 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	5 cavalier	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cavalier	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sharp	punct
4	tongued	tongued	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cavalier	amod
5	cavalier	cavalier	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flew	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 caused	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 caused	aux
8	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 cavalier	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flute	det
10	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caused	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 played	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 played	aux:pass
13	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 flute	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 child	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 child	cc
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 child	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 child	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caused	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 parents	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 parents	nmod:poss
22	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 child	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cavalier	punct
24	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 flew	xcomp
26	into	into	ADP	_	30 house	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
28	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 fowl	punct
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flew	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 alone	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 alone	cc
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 alone	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 alone	nsubj
35	alone	alone	ADV	_	24 flew	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	past · perfect	the sharp tongued cavalier	the flute		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition flute=Patient
2	play	to-infinitive · passive	the sharp tongued cavalier not said here	the flute not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»
3	is a	past		the child	of child's parents	tree rules
4	fly	past	the sharp tongued cavalier		into the fowl house result; alone, headlong property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result

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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