Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 82

When he had come down into the courtyard he walked quite softly, and the ladies were so busily engaged in counting the kisses, that all should be fair, that they did not notice the emperor.

Who acts: remainder, all, ladies · What happens: come down, walk, engage, count, be, not notice · To what, where: courtyard, ladies, kisses, emperor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remainder, all, ladies), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 courtyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 courtyard	det
8	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walked	nsubj
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 courtyard	acl:relcl
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 softly	advmod
12	softly	softly	ADV	_	10 walked	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 engaged	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 engaged	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ladies	det
16	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 engaged	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 engaged	aux:pass
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 engaged	advmod
19	busily	busily	ADV	_	20 engaged	advmod
20	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 come	conj
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 counting	mark
22	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 engaged	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 kisses	det
24	kisses	kiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 counting	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fair	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 fair	mark
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 fair	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fair	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 fair	cop
30	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 engaged	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 notice	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 notice	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 notice	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 notice	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 notice	advmod
36	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 fair	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 emperor	det
38	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 notice	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	past · perfect	remainder		the courtyard	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_Location
2	walk	past	remainder	the courtyard not said here		softly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Trajectory
3	engage	past · passive		the ladies		busily property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	count	gerund		the kisses			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme
5	is	should	all			fair property	tree rules
6	not notice	past · do-support	ladies = lady	the emperor			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer emperor=Stimulus

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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