Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 15

They threw things against the doors, and were quite beside themselves with joy, because the old year had disappeared.

Who acts: people, old year · What happens: throw, be, disappear · To what, where: things, doors

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, old year), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 doors	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doors	det
6	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 themselves	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 themselves	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 themselves	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 themselves	advmod
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 themselves	case
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 threw	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 joy	case
14	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 disappeared	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 disappeared	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 year	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 year	amod
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 disappeared	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 disappeared	aux
21	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 threw	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	people	things	the doors	with joy	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme against door=Destination
2	is	past				beside people	tree rules
3	disappear	past · perfect	the old year				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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