Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 32

They could all speak very well while they were outside in the streets, but when they entered the palace gates, and saw the guards in silver uniforms, and the footmen in their golden livery on the staircase, and the great halls lighted up, they became quite confused.

Who acts: people, halls · What happens: speak, be, enter, see, light up, become · To what, where: streets, palace gates, guards, silver uniforms, footmen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, halls), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 speak	advmod
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 outside	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 outside	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 outside	cop
10	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 speak	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 streets	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 streets	det
13	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 outside	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 entered	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 entered	nsubj
18	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saw	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gates	det
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gates	compound
21	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 entered	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 guards	det
26	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 saw	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 uniforms	case
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 uniforms	compound
29	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 guards	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 lighted	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 lighted	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 footmen	det
33	footmen	footman	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 lighted	nsubj:pass
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 livery	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 livery	nmod:poss
36	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 livery	amod
37	livery	livery	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 footmen	nmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 staircase	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 staircase	det
40	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 livery	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 lighted	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 lighted	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 halls	det
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 halls	amod
45	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 lighted	nsubj
46	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 saw	conj
47	up	up	ADP	_	46 lighted	compound:prt
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 became	punct
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 became	nsubj
50	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saw	conj
51	quite	quite	ADV	_	52 confused	advmod
52	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 became	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	could	people			all, well property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	people		the streets	outside property	tree rules
3	enter	past	people	the palace gates			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination
4	see	past	people not said here	the guards	silver uniforms		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guard=Stimulus
5	light up	participle · passive		the footmen in people's golden livery on the staircase			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
6	become	past	halls = hall			confused property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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