Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 83

How homely, how patriarchal, it must have been in the old mansion, where the mistress sat at the spinning-wheel with her maids, while her husband read aloud out of the Bible!"

Who acts: patriarchal, mistress, husband · What happens: be, sit, read · To what, where: old mansion, spinning wheel, Bible

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 (patriarchal, mistress, husband), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 homely	advmod
2	homely	homely	ADV	_	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 how	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 homely	advmod
5	patriarchal	patriarchal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 how	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mansion	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mansion	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 mansion	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 mansion	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 mansion	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 mansion	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mansion	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mansion	amod
14	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 patriarchal	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 sat	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mistress	det
18	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mansion	parataxis
20	at	at	ADP	_	24 wheel	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wheel	det
22	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wheel	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 spinning	punct
24	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 maids	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 maids	nmod:poss
27	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sat	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 read	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 read	mark
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 husband	nmod:poss
31	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 read	nsubj
32	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
33	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	32 read	advmod
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 Bible	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Bible	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Bible	det
37	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 read	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 patriarchal	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 how	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	must · perfect	patriarchal	the old mansion		tree rules
2	sit	past	the mistress	the spinning wheel	with couple's maids	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at wheel=Location
3	read	past	couple's husband	the Bible	aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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