Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 18

Laughter and the howls of dogs were heard through the open windows: there they were feasting and revelling; wine and strong old ale were foaming in the glasses and jugs; the favourite dogs ate with their masters; now and then the squires kissed one of these animals, after having wiped its mouth first with the tablecloth.

Who acts: Laughter, wine, favourite dogs, squires, dogs · What happens: hear, be, foam, eat, kiss, wipe · To what, where: Laughter, open windows, feasting, glasses, one, mouth

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 (Laughter, wine, favourite dogs, squires), 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	Laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 howls	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 howls	det
4	howls	howl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Laughter	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 howls	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux:pass
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 windows	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 windows	det
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 windows	amod
12	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heard	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 feasting	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 they	expl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 feasting	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 feasting	cop
17	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 revelling	cc
19	revelling	revelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feasting	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 wine	punct
21	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 foaming	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ale	cc
23	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ale	amod
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ale	amod
25	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wine	conj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 foaming	aux
27	foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 feasting	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 glasses	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 glasses	det
30	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 foaming	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 jugs	cc
32	jugs	jug	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 glasses	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 ate	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dogs	det
35	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dogs	amod
36	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 ate	nsubj
37	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	parataxis
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 masters	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 masters	nmod:poss
40	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 ate	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 kissed	punct
42	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 kissed	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 kissed	cc
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 kissed	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 squires	det
46	squires	squire	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 kissed	nsubj
47	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 ate	conj
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 kissed	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 animals	case
50	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	51 animals	det
51	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 one	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 wiped	punct
53	after	after	SCONJ	_	55 wiped	mark
54	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 wiped	aux
55	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 ate	conj
56	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 mouth	nmod:poss
57	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 wiped	obj
58	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	55 wiped	advmod
59	with	with	ADP	_	61 tablecloth	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 tablecloth	det
61	tablecloth	tablecloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 wiped	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		Laughter and the howls of dogs	the open windows			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	is a	past	Laughter	feasting and revelling				tree rules
3	foam	past · progressive	wine and strong old ale	feasting and revelling not said here	the glasses and jugs			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location feasting=Theme
4	eat	past	the favourite dogs				with dogs's masters	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	kiss	past	the squires	one of this animals		now; then		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent
6	wipe	gerund · perfect	the favourite dogs not said here	master's mouth			with the tablecloth; first property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mouth=Source
7	howl		dogs					nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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