Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 35

A comedy was being performed in it, and all the queens of diamonds, clubs, and hearts, and spades, sat in the first row fanning themselves with tulips, and behind them stood all the knaves, showing that they had heads above and below as playing cards generally have.

Who acts: spades · What happens: perform, sit, fan, stand, show, have · To what, where: comedy, theatre, first row, spades, knaves, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spades), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 comedy	det
2	comedy	comedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 performed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 performed	aux:pass
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 performed	aux:pass
5	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 performed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 queens	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 queens	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 queens	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 queens	det
12	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 performed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 diamonds	case
14	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 queens	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 clubs	punct
16	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 diamonds	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hearts	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hearts	cc
19	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 diamonds	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
22	spades	spade	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sat	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spades	punct
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 performed	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 row	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 row	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 row	amod
28	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
29	fanning	fan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sat	advcl
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 fanning	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 tulips	case
32	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fanning	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stood	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stood	cc
35	behind	behind	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stood	obl
37	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 performed	parataxis
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 knaves	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 knaves	det
40	knaves	knave	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 stood	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 showing	punct
42	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 stood	advcl
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 had	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 showing	ccomp
46	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 had	obj
47	above	above	ADV	_	45 had	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 below	cc
49	below	below	ADV	_	47 above	conj
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 playing	mark
51	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 showing	advcl
52	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 playing	obj
53	generally	generally	ADV	_	51 playing	advmod
54	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 stood	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 performed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perform	past · passive		a comedy	theatre	all queens of diamonds and clubs and hearts obl	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	sit	past	spades		the first row		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location
3	fan	gerund	spades not said here	spades = spade		with tulips	tree rules
4	stand	past		all knaves		behind spades = spade	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knave=Theme behind they=Destination
5	show	gerund					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	past	spades = spade	heads		above property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
7	play	gerund		cards		generally property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme
8	have	present					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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