Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 36

It was pleasant and cheerful to live in the old place now: the mother superintended the household, and the father looked after things out-of-doors, and they were indeed very prosperous.

Who acts: tale, mother, father, events · What happens: be, live, superintend, look · To what, where: old place, household

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 (tale, mother, father, events), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pleasant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleasant	cop
3	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cheerful	cc
5	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pleasant	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cheerful	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 live	advmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 superintended	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 superintended	nsubj
16	superintended	superintend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleasant	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 household	det
18	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 superintended	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 father	det
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looked	nsubj
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 superintended	conj
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 things	case
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 looked	obl
26	out	out	ADP	_	30 doors	case
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 out	punct
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 doors	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 of	punct
30	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 looked	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 prosperous	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 prosperous	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 prosperous	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 prosperous	cop
35	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	37 prosperous	advmod
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 prosperous	advmod
37	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pleasant	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	tale				pleasant property	tree rules
2	be		tale not said here					tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive	tale not said here		the old place	now		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
4	superintend	past	the mother	the household				vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent household=Theme
5	look	past	the father			after things	out doors	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out door=Theme
6	is	past	events = event				indeed, prosperous property	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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