Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 11
In the street beneath, they brought out tables and chairs, lighted candles by hundreds, talked and sang, and were very merry.
Who acts: people · What happens: bring out, light, talk, sing, be · To what, where: tables, street
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 street | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 street | det |
| 3 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 4 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 3 street | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 street | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 brought | compound:prt |
| 9 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chairs | cc |
| 11 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tables | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 candles | punct |
| 13 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 candles | amod |
| 14 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tables | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 hundreds | case |
| 16 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 candles | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 talked | punct |
| 18 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sang | cc |
| 20 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 talked | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 merry | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 merry | cc |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 merry | cop |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 merry | advmod |
| 25 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brought | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring out | past | people | tables and chairs and lighted candles by hundreds | the street | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent table=Patient | |||
| 2 | light | participle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | talk | past | people not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | people not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | people not said here | merry 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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