Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 4

There were no amusements here, not even a little bear's ball, when the storm might have been the music, and the bears could have danced on their hind legs, and shown their good manners.

Who acts: amusements, storm · What happens: be, dance, show · To what, where: music, bears, hind legs, good manners

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amusements, storm), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 amusements	det
4	amusements	amusement	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 were	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ball	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 ball	advmod
8	even	even	ADV	_	13 ball	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bear	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bear	amod
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ball	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 bear	case
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 music	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 music	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 storm	det
17	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 music	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 music	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 music	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 music	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 music	det
22	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ball	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 danced	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 danced	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bears	det
26	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 danced	nsubj:pass
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 danced	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 danced	aux
29	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	parataxis
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 legs	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 legs	nmod:poss
32	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 legs	amod
33	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 danced	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 shown	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 shown	cc
36	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 danced	conj
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 manners	nmod:poss
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 manners	amod
39	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	36 shown	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	no amusements		here; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	might · perfect	the storm	the music		tree rules
3	dance	could · perfect · passive		the bears	amusements's hind legs	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	show	participle		amusements's good manners		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent manners=Recipient

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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