Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 82

Who could resist sitting down on such a beautiful carpet? and then the young children of Spring seated themselves, holding each other's hands, and sang, and laughed, and grew.

Who acts: young children · What happens: resist, sit down, seat, hold, sing, laugh · To what, where: beautiful carpet, violets, hands

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 (young children), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 resist	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 resist	aux
3	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 resist	xcomp
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 sitting	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 carpet	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 carpet	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 carpet	det
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 carpet	amod
10	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 resist	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seated	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 seated	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 children	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 children	amod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seated	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Spring	case
18	Spring	Spring	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 children	nmod
19	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resist	conj
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 seated	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 holding	punct
22	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 seated	advcl
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 other	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hands	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 other	case
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 holding	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sang	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sang	cc
29	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resist	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 laughed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 laughed	cc
32	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sang	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 grew	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 grew	cc
35	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 laughed	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 resist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resist	could						tree rules
2	sit down	gerund			such beautiful carpet		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on carpet=Location
3	seat	past	the young children of Spring	violets = violet		then		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value
4	hold	gerund	the young children of Spring not said here	each other's hands				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
5	sing speech: express	past						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	laugh	past						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	grow	past						vn appear-48.1.1 «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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