Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 28

Everybody wished to see it, and people even came in from the country round to be permitted to view the treasures it contained.

Who acts: Everybody, people, house · What happens: wish, see, come in, permit, view, contain · To what, where: house, country, treasures

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 (Everybody, people, house), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	parataxis
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 country	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 country	det
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
15	round	round	ADV	_	18 permitted	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	18 permitted	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 permitted	aux:pass
18	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 came	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 view	mark
20	view	view	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 permitted	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 treasures	det
22	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 view	obj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 contained	nsubj
24	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 treasures	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	past	Everybody				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Everybody not said here	house			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	come in	past	people		the country		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location
4	permit	to-infinitive · passive	people not said here			round property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
5	view not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here	the treasures			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treasure=Stimulus
6	contain	past	house	the treasures not said here			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme

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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