Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 16

They stood in a labyrinth of endless halls and arched passages, all communicating with each other.

Who acts: strangers · What happens: stand, arch, communicate · To what, where: labyrinth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strangers), 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 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 labyrinth	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 labyrinth	det
5	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 halls	case
7	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 halls	amod
8	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 labyrinth	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 passages	cc
10	arched	arch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 passages	amod
11	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 halls	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 communicating	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 communicating	advmod
14	communicating	communicate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	14 communicating	obl
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	strangers = stranger	a labyrinth of endless halls and arched passages		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in labyrinth=Location
2	arch	participle				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	communicate	gerund	strangers = stranger not said here		with each	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with each=Co-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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