Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 54
There were so many people in the great hall of the palace that they stood as thick as radishes tied together in a bundle.
Who acts: many people, people · What happens: be, stand, tie · To what, where: palace, radishes, bundle
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 (many people, people), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hall | amod |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 people | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hall | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 stood | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 palace | acl |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 thick | advmod |
| 17 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stood | xcomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 radishes | case |
| 19 | radishes | radish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thick | obl |
| 20 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 radishes | acl |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 tied | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bundle | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bundle | det |
| 24 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tied | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | many people in the great hall of the palace | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | people | the palace not said here | thick property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | tie | participle | radishes not said here | a bundle | together property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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