Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 8

The young people amused themselves on the lawn, and played at ball; they wandered among the flowers, and each of the young girls broke off a flower, and fastened it in a young gentleman's buttonhole.

Who acts: young people, people, each · What happens: amuse, play, wander, break off, fasten · To what, where: people, lawn, ball, flowers, flower, buttonhole

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young people, people, each), 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	3 people	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 amused	nsubj
4	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 amused	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 lawn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lawn	det
8	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 amused	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 played	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 played	cc
11	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amused	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 ball	case
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 played	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 wandered	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wandered	nsubj
16	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amused	parataxis
17	among	among	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flowers	det
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wandered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 broke	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 broke	cc
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 broke	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 girls	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 girls	det
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 girls	amod
26	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 each	nmod
27	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wandered	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 broke	compound:prt
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 flower	det
30	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 broke	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fastened	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fastened	cc
33	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wandered	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fastened	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	40 buttonhole	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 gentleman	det
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 gentleman	amod
38	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 buttonhole	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 gentleman	case
40	buttonhole	buttonhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fastened	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 amused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	amuse	past	the young people	people	the lawn	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
2	play	past	the young people not said here		ball	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wander	past	people		the flowers	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among flower=Trajectory
4	break off	past	each	a flower		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Patient
5	fasten	past	people not said here	ball	a young gentleman's buttonhole	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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