Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 89

Psalms were sung, and a few of the old people shed tears; with this exception, the guests were cheerful enough, it seemed to Jurgen, and there was plenty to eat and drink.

Who acts: few, guests, it, plenty · What happens: sing, shed, be, seem, eat, drink · To what, where: Psalms, tears, Jurgen

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, guests, it, plenty), 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	Psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sung	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sung	aux:pass
3	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shed	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 few	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shed	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 people	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 few	nmod
12	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sung	advcl
13	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shed	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 cheerful	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 exception	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 exception	det
17	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cheerful	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 exception	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 guests	det
20	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cheerful	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cheerful	cop
22	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shed	conj
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 cheerful	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sung	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Jurgen	case
28	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 seemed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 was	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 was	cc
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sung	parataxis
33	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 was	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 plenty	acl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 drink	cc
37	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 eat	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · passive		Psalms				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	shed	past	a few of the old people	tears				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
3	is	past	the guests				with this exception; cheerful, enough property	tree rules
4	seem	past	it		Jurgen			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	be	past	plenty			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	eat	to-infinitive	plenty not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	drink	infinitive	plenty not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «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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