Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 158

Souls always enter these gates in pairs; so he found himself standing and waiting for admission with another; and who should it be but old dame Margaret, from the house on the dyke! "

Who acts: Souls, widow · What happens: enter, find, stand, wait, be · To what, where: gates, pairs, widow, old dame

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Souls, widow), 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	Souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 enter	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 enter	advmod
3	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 gates	det
5	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 enter	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 pairs	case
7	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gates	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 found	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 enter	parataxis
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 found	obj
13	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 found	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 waiting	cc
15	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 standing	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 admission	case
17	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 waiting	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 another	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 admission	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 be	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 be	cc
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 be	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 be	aux
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 be	nsubj
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 dame	cop
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 dame	cc
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dame	amod
28	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enter	parataxis
29	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 dame	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 house	punct
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Margaret	appos
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 dyke	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dyke	det
36	dyke	dyke	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 house	nmod
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 Margaret	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 dame	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	present	Souls	this gates	pairs	always property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination
2	find	past	widow	widow			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	stand	gerund	widow not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wait	gerund	widow not said here			for admission with another	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	infinitive		old dame			tree rules

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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