Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 13

The parents of these children, who were poor, often sat together while Knud and Joanna played in the gardens or in the road.

Who acts: parents, Knud · What happens: be, sit, play · To what, where: gardens

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, Knud), 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 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poor	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 children	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 parents	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 poor	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 poor	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 poor	cop
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 poor	advcl
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 played	mark
15	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 played	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Joanna	cc
17	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Knud	conj
18	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 gardens	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gardens	det
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 played	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 road	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 road	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 road	det
25	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gardens	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the parents of this children		poor property	tree rules
2	sit	past	the parents of this children not said here		often, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	past	Knud and Joanna	the gardens or the road		vn performance-26.7-1 «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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