Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 27

The whole court jumped about as they had seen the king do the day before, but the princess lay on the sofa, and would not say a single word.

Who acts: whole court, people, princess · What happens: jump about, see, do, lie, not say · To what, where: king, sofa, single word · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (whole court, people, princess), 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 court	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 court	amod
3	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 jumped	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 seen	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 do	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	obj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 jumped	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obl:unmarked
15	before	before	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lay	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 lay	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jumped	parataxis
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 sofa	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sofa	det
23	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 say	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 say	cc
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 say	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 say	advmod
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lay	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 word	det
30	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 word	amod
31	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 say	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump about	past	the whole court				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past · perfect	people	the king				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus
3	do	present				day	before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lie	past	the princess		the sofa			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location
5	not say speech: assert	would	the princess not said here	a single word				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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