Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 173

The people came from the town, and walked upon it, and they say there were dancing and skating upon it, I believe, and a great feasting.

Who acts: people, I · What happens: come, walk, say, dance, skate, believe · To what, where: town · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, I), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walked	cc
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 walked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 say	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 dancing	expl
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dancing	aux
18	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 say	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 skating	cc
20	skating	skate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 dancing	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 skating	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 believe	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 believe	nsubj
25	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 say	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 feasting	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 feasting	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 feasting	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 feasting	amod
30	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 believe	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the people	the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location
2	walk	past	the people not said here	town		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	present	People			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	dance	past · progressive		there		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	skate	gerund			upon town	vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	believe	present	I			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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