Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 28

While the tree was advancing, everything else at the castle was going backward, through feasting and gambling, for these are two rollers upon which nobody stands safely.

Who acts: tree, castle, these, nobody · What happens: advance, go, be, stand · To what, where: everything, feasting, two rollers

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 (tree, castle, these, nobody), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 advancing	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 advancing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 advancing	aux
5	advancing	advance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 everything	punct
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 advancing	obj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 everything	advmod
9	at	at	SCONJ	_	13 going	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 castle	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 everything	acl
14	backward	backward	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feasting	punct
16	through	through	ADP	_	17 feasting	case
17	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gambling	cc
19	gambling	gambling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feasting	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rollers	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	25 rollers	case
22	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 rollers	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 rollers	cop
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 rollers	nummod
25	rollers	roller	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 advancing	obl
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 stands	obl
28	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 stands	nsubj
29	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 rollers	acl:relcl
30	safely	safely	ADV	_	29 stands	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 advancing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	advance	past · progressive	the tree	everything			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer everything=Patient
2	go	past · progressive	the castle		feasting and gambling	backward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through feasting=Initial_Location
3	is	present	these			for two rollers	tree rules
4	stand	present	nobody		two rollers	safely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon which=Location

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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