Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 44

The people of Kjoge, and even the rich wife of the man who kept the fancy shop, would stand and listen while Joanna was singing, and say, "She has really a very sweet voice."

Who acts: man, people, Joanna · What happens: keep, stand, listen, sing, say, have · To what, where: fancy shop, sweet voice · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, people, Joanna), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stand	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Kjoge	case
4	Kjoge	Kjoge	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wife	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wife	cc
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 wife	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wife	det
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wife	amod
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 kept	nsubj
15	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shop	det
17	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shop	amod
18	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 people	punct
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 stand	aux
21	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 listen	cc
23	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 stand	conj
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 singing	mark
25	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 singing	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 singing	aux
27	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 listen	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 say	cc
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 stand	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 has	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 has	punct
33	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 has	nsubj
34	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 say	ccomp
35	really	really	ADV	_	39 voice	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 voice	det
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 sweet	advmod
38	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 voice	amod
39	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 has	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 stand	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	the man	the fancy shop	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme
2	stand	would	the people of Kjoge the rich wife of the man		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	infinitive	the people of Kjoge the rich wife of the man not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	past · progressive	Joanna		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	the people of Kjoge the rich wife of the man not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have in a quote	present	Joanna	a sweet voice	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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