Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 17

The men-servants and maids looked over his stock of articles and bargained with him; loud crying and screaming were heard from the master's table above: they called it singing--indeed, they did their best.

Who acts: men, servants, child · What happens: look, bargain, cry, scream, hear, call · To what, where: loud, table, best, articles · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, servants, child), 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 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 looked	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 men	punct
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 looked	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 maids	cc
6	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 servants	conj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 stock	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stock	nmod:poss
10	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 articles	case
12	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stock	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bargained	cc
14	bargained	bargain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 articles	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bargained	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 loud	punct
18	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 heard	nsubj
19	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 loud	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 screaming	cc
21	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 crying	conj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	aux:pass
23	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 looked	parataxis
24	from	from	ADP	_	28 table	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 master	det
26	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 table	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 master	case
28	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obl
29	above	above	ADP	_	28 table	nmod
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 called	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	nsubj
32	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looked	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	obj
34	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 called	xcomp
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 indeed	punct
36	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	34 singing	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 did	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 did	nsubj
39	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 called	conj
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 best	nmod:poss
41	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 did	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the men			over child's stock of articles	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over stock=Theme
2	bargain	participle	the men not said here			with child	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
3	cry speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	scream speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	past · passive		loud	the master's table		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from table=Source
6	call	past	servants = servant	table			tree rules
7	sing speech: express	gerund	servants = servant not said here			indeed property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	do	past	servants = servant	servants's best			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
9	stock		child	articles			nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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