Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 58

All the inhabitants of the country round about stood in great crowds around the castle, almost under the very windows, to see the Princess receive the suitors; and as each stepped into the hall, his power of speech seemed to desert him, like the light of a candle that is blown out.

Who acts: inhabitants, Princess, stepped hall · What happens: stand, see, receive, step, seem, desert · To what, where: great crowds, Princess, suitors, other, light, candle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, Princess, stepped hall), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 inhabitants	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 inhabitants	det
3	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stood	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 inhabitants	nmod
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 stood	mark
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 stood	advmod
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 crowds	case
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 crowds	amod
12	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stood	obl
13	around	around	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 windows	punct
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 windows	advmod
18	under	under	ADP	_	21 windows	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 windows	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 windows	advmod
21	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stood	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obj
27	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 see	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 suitors	det
29	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 receive	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 seemed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 seemed	cc
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 hall	mark
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	37 hall	nsubj
34	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 hall	amod
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 hall	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hall	det
37	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 seemed	nsubj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 power	punct
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 power	nmod:poss
40	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hall	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 speech	case
42	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 power	nmod
43	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 desert	mark
45	desert	desert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 seemed	xcomp
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 desert	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 light	punct
48	like	like	ADP	_	50 light	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 light	det
50	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 desert	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 candle	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 candle	det
53	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 light	nmod
54	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 blown	nsubj:pass
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 blown	aux:pass
56	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 light	acl:relcl
57	out	out	ADP	_	56 blown	compound:prt
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	all inhabitants of the country		great crowds	around the castle; under the windows; about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in crowd=Location
2	see	to-infinitive	all inhabitants of the country not said here	the Princess			tree rules
3	receive	infinitive	the Princess not said here	the suitors			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Theme
4	step	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seem	past	the stepped hall and other's power of speech				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	desert	to-infinitive	the stepped hall and other's power of speech not said here	other		like the light of a candle	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme he=Source
7	blow out	present · passive		the light of a candle			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
8	light			a candle			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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