Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 12

The great hall was full of people, and the judges sat in arm-chairs, with eider-down cushions to rest their heads upon, because they had so much to think of.

Who acts: great hall, judges · What happens: be, sit, rest, have, think · To what, where: arm chairs, heads, much

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great hall, judges), 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 hall	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hall	amod
3	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 judges	det
11	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 chairs	case
14	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chairs	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 arm	punct
16	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cushions	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 cushions	case
19	eider	eider	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 down	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 eider	punct
21	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cushions	compound
22	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sat	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 rest	mark
24	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cushions	acl
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heads	nmod:poss
26	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rest	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 rest	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 had	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 think	mark
35	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 much	acl
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 think	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the great hall			of people; full property	tree rules
2	sit	past	the judges		arm chairs	with down cushions	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
3	rest	to-infinitive	the judges not said here	judges's heads			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
4	have	past	judges = judge	much			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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