Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 141

Strangers stood around, carrying on a lively conversation, such as no one would have dared to carry on in the gorgeous hall of secrets whence the Dryad came.

Who acts: Strangers, lively conversation, Dryad · What happens: stand around, carry, dare, carry on, come · To what, where: lively conversation, one, gorgeous hall

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strangers, lively conversation, Dryad), 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	Strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 carrying	punct
5	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 conversation	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 conversation	det
8	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 conversation	amod
9	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carrying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dared	punct
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	17 dared	mark
12	as	as	ADP	_	11 such	fixed
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dared	nsubj:pass
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 dared	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 dared	aux
17	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 conversation	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 carry	mark
19	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 dared	xcomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 carry	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 hall	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hall	det
23	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hall	amod
24	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carry	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 secrets	case
26	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hall	nmod
27	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	30 came	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Dryad	det
29	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 secrets	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand around	past	Strangers			around property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	gerund	Strangers not said here		a lively conversation		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	dare	would · perfect · passive	a lively conversation not said here	no one			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	carry on	to-infinitive	a lively conversation not said here		the gorgeous hall of secrets		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	the Dryad			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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