Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 2

Every one seemed in a great hurry; they ran, they flew, fell into each other's arms, holding fast for a moment as long as they could stand safely.

Who acts: one, windows · What happens: seem, run, fly, fall, hold, stand · To what, where: arms

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 (one, windows), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 hurry	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hurry	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hurry	amod
7	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flew	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flew	nsubj
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ran	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 each	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 other	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 arms	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 other	case
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fell	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 holding	punct
22	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 fell	advcl
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 holding	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 moment	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 moment	det
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 holding	obl
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 holding	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 stand	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stand	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 stand	aux
32	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 long	advcl
33	safely	safely	ADV	_	32 stand	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	every one			in a great hurry	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in hurry=Attribute
2	run	past	windows = window				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	past	windows = window				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	every one not said here	each other's arms			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient arm=Result
5	hold	gerund	every one not said here		moment	fast, long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	could	windows = window			safely property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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