Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 21

He had been turning the spit for the cook, and she had given him permission to stand behind the door and peep in at the well-dressed children, who were having such a merry time within; and for him that was a great deal. "

Who acts: boy, mamma, dressed children, that · What happens: turn, give, stand, dress, have, be · To what, where: spit, permission, boy, door, great deal

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, mamma, dressed children, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turning	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turning	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 turning	aux
4	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spit	det
6	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turning	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 cook	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cook	det
9	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turning	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 given	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 given	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 given	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 given	aux
14	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 turning	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 given	iobj
16	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 given	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 stand	mark
18	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 given	advcl
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stand	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 peep	cc
23	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 door	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	30 children	case
25	at	at	ADP	_	30 children	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 children	det
27	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dressed	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 well	punct
29	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 children	amod
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stand	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 having	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 having	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 having	aux
34	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 children	acl
35	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	38 time	det:predet
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 time	det
37	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 time	amod
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 having	obl:unmarked
39	within	within	ADP	_	34 having	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 deal	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 deal	cc
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 deal	obl
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 deal	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 deal	cop
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 deal	det
47	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 deal	amod
48	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turning	parataxis
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 deal	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 deal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect · progressive	boy	the spit				for the cook	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spit=Theme
2	give	past · perfect	mamma	permission	boy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient permission=Theme
3	stand	to-infinitive	mamma not said here			the door and peep		in the dressed children	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location
4	dress	participle							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past · progressive	the dressed children				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	that	a great deal				for boy	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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