Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 7

Now, there are among us human creatures certain individuals who are known as "emancipated women," as, for instance, principals of institutions, dancers who stand professionally on one leg, milliners, and sick-nurses; and with this class of emancipated women the two Maidens in the shed associated themselves.

Who acts: dancers · What happens: be, know, emancipate, stand, associate · To what, where: human creatures, certain individuals, one leg, women · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancers), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 are	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	among	among	ADP	_	8 creatures	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 creatures	nsubj
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 creatures	amod
8	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	obl
9	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 individuals	amod
10	individuals	individual	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 creatures	appos
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 known	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 known	aux:pass
13	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 individuals	acl:relcl
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 women	case
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 emancipated	punct
16	emancipated	emancipate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 women	amod
17	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 known	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 women	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 women	punct
20	as	as	ADV	_	13 known	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 instance	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 instance	case
23	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 known	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 principals	punct
25	principals	principal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 creatures	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 institutions	case
27	institutions	institution	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 principals	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dancers	punct
29	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 creatures	conj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 stand	nsubj
31	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 dancers	acl:relcl
32	professionally	professionally	ADV	_	31 stand	advmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 leg	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 leg	nummod
35	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stand	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 milliners	punct
37	milliners	milliner	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 leg	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 nurses	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 nurses	cc
40	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 nurses	amod
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 sick	punct
42	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 creatures	conj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 associated	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 associated	cc
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 class	case
46	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 class	det
47	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 associated	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 women	case
49	emancipated	emancipate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 women	amod
50	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 class	nmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Maidens	det
52	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 Maidens	nummod
53	Maidens	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Plur	50 women	nmod
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 shed	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 shed	det
56	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 Maidens	nmod
57	associated	associate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 are	parataxis
58	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	57 associated	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present			human creatures and principals of institutions and dancers and sick nurses; there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among creature=Location
2	know	present · passive		certain individuals			as emancipated women; for instance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as woman=Attribute
3	emancipate in a quote	participle						vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stand	present	dancers		one leg and milliners		professionally property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
5	emancipate	participle						vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	associate	past		women = woman			with this class of emancipated women the two Maidens in the shed	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient with class=Co-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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