Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 9

The boxes were very high, and the children knew they must not climb upon them, without permission, but they were often, however, allowed to step out together and sit upon their little stools under the rose-bushes, or play quietly.

Who acts: boxes, children · What happens: be, know, not climb, allow, step out, sit · To what, where: children, little stools · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boxes, children), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boxes	det
2	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 high	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 high	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 high	parataxis
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 climb	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 climb	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 climb	advmod
14	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 knew	ccomp
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 climb	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 permission	punct
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 permission	case
19	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 climb	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 allowed	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 allowed	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 allowed	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 allowed	aux:pass
24	often	often	ADV	_	28 allowed	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 often	punct
26	however	however	ADV	_	28 allowed	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 however	punct
28	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 high	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 step	mark
30	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 allowed	xcomp
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 step	compound:prt
32	together	together	ADV	_	30 step	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sit	cc
34	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 allowed	conj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 stools	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 stools	nmod:poss
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 stools	amod
38	stools	stool	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sit	obl
39	under	under	ADP	_	43 bushes	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bushes	det
41	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bushes	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 rose	punct
43	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 stools	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 play	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 play	cc
46	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 sit	conj
47	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	46 play	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boxes			high property	tree rules
2	know	past	the children				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not climb	must	children = child			upon flowers = flower; without permission	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory
4	allow	past · passive		children = child		however, often property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	step out not said to happen	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			together property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sit	present			flowers's little stools under the rose bushes		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stool=Location
7	play	infinitive				quietly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «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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