Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 6

Now it was a children's party, and there was children's prattle, which always is spoken freely from the heart.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: party, prattle, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (merchant), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 party	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 party	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 party	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 party	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 children	case
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prattle	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 prattle	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 prattle	cop
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 prattle	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 children	case
14	prattle	prattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 party	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spoken	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 spoken	nsubj:pass
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 spoken	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 spoken	aux:pass
19	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 prattle	parataxis
20	freely	freely	ADV	_	19 spoken	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 heart	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 heart	det
23	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spoken	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 party	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	merchant	a children's party		now		tree rules
2	is a	past		children's prattle				tree rules
3	speak speech: other	present · passive		children's prattle	the heart		always, freely property	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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