Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 82

The theatre remained closed, the women who sold sweetmeats tied crape round the sugar-sticks, and the king and the priests were on their knees in the church.

Who acts: women, king · What happens: close, sell, tie, be · To what, where: theatre, sweetmeats, knees

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 (women, king), 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 theatre	det
2	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closed	nsubj:pass
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	aux:pass
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 women	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 women	det
7	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 closed	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sold	nsubj
9	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 women	acl:relcl
10	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sold	obj
11	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 crape	amod
12	crape	crape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sold	obj
13	round	round	ADP	_	17 sticks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sticks	det
15	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sticks	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sugar	punct
17	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sold	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knees	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knees	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knees	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 priests	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 priests	det
24	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 king	conj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 knees	cop
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 knees	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 knees	nmod:poss
28	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 closed	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 church	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 church	det
31	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knees	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	close	past · passive		the theatre		the women obl	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	sell	past	the women	sweetmeats		round the sugar sticks	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Recipient crape=Theme
3	tie	participle					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	the king and the priests		priests's knees	in the church	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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