Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 8

The coachman danced with the cook, and the waiters with the chambermaids, and all the strangers joined; even the tongs and the fire-shovel made an attempt, but they fell down after the first jump.

Who acts: coachman, strangers, tongs · What happens: dance, join, make, fall down · To what, where: waiters, attempt

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coachman, strangers, tongs), 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 coachman	det
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 danced	nsubj
3	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cook	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 danced	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waiters	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 waiters	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 waiters	det
10	waiters	waiter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 danced	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 chambermaids	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chambermaids	det
13	chambermaids	chambermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 waiters	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 joined	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 joined	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 strangers	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 strangers	det
18	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 joined	nsubj
19	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 tongs	punct
21	even	even	ADV	_	23 tongs	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tongs	det
23	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 made	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shovel	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shovel	det
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shovel	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 fire	punct
28	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tongs	conj
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	parataxis
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 attempt	det
31	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fell	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 fell	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fell	nsubj
35	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	conj
36	down	down	ADV	_	35 fell	advmod
37	after	after	ADP	_	40 jump	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 jump	det
39	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	40 jump	amod
40	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fell	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	the coachman	the waiters with the chambermaids		with the cook	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	join	past	all strangers				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	make	past	the tongs and the fire shovel	a attempt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product
4	fall down	past	tongs = tong		after the first jump	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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