Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 61

Then they stood in the dark fire-box, and listened behind the door, to hear what was going on in the room.

Who acts: legs · What happens: stand, listen, hear, go on · To what, where: dark fire box, room · 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 (legs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stood	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 box	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 box	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 box	amod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 box	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fire	punct
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 listened	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 listened	cc
12	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stood	conj
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 listened	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hear	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hear	mark
18	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stood	advcl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 going	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 hear	ccomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 going	compound:prt
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 room	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 room	det
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 going	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	legs = leg	the dark fire box	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in box=Location
2	listen	participle	legs = leg not said here			behind the door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind door=Theme
3	hear	to-infinitive	legs = leg not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go on	past · progressive		the room			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=Location

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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