Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 110

The trains to their dresses were very long, according to the fashion; while the prettiest of wooden dolls, with glass eyes and large mustaches, stood at the doors, and opened and shut them, that the fresh air might come into the room.

Who acts: trains, fresh air · What happens: be, accord, stand, open, shut, come · To what, where: fashion, doors, trains, room

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trains, fresh air), 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	2 trains	det
2	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 dresses	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dresses	nmod:poss
5	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trains	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 long	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 according	punct
10	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 long	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 fashion	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fashion	det
13	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 according	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 prettiest	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 prettiest	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prettiest	det
17	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 long	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 dolls	case
19	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dolls	amod
20	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stood	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eyes	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 eyes	case
23	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eyes	compound
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dolls	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 mustaches	cc
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mustaches	amod
27	mustaches	mustache	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dolls	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dolls	punct
29	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 prettiest	parataxis
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 doors	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 doors	det
32	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stood	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 opened	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 opened	cc
35	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stood	parataxis
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 shut	cc
37	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 opened	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 shut	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 come	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 air	det
42	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 air	amod
43	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 come	nsubj
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 come	aux
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 shut	conj
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 room	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 room	det
48	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 come	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the trains to trains's dresses			long property	tree rules
2	accord	gerund	the trains to trains's dresses not said here			to the fashion goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to fashion=Goal
3	be		the trains to trains's dresses not said here				tree rules
4	stand	past			the doors	of wooden dolls and glass eyes and large mustaches	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
5	open	past					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shut	past		trains = train			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
7	come	might	the fresh air		the room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location

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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