Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 28

The people who live there of course made the whole arrangement that they might have the pleasure of seeing us, or they would not have done it.

Who acts: people, pleasure · What happens: live, make, have, see, not do · To what, where: course, whole arrangement, pleasure, us

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, pleasure), 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	8 made	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 people	acl:relcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 live	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	4 live	obl
7	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 arrangement	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arrangement	amod
11	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 have	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pleasure	det
17	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 seeing	mark
19	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 pleasure	acl
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 seeing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 done	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 done	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 done	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 done	advmod
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 done	aux
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 made	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 done	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	present	the people	course	there	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	the people	the whole arrangement		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrangement=Product
3	have	might	people	the pleasure		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
4	see	gerund	the pleasure not said here	us		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
5	not do	would · perfect	people	pleasure		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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