Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 31

And that is the life drama that passes before the old maid while she looks out upon the rampart, the green, sunny rampart, where the children, with their red cheeks and bare shoeless feet, are rejoicing merrily, like the other free little birds.

Who acts: that, life drama, maid, children · What happens: be, pass, look out, rejoice · To what, where: life drama

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, life drama, maid, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 drama	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 drama	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 drama	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drama	det
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drama	compound
6	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 passes	nsubj
8	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 drama	acl:relcl
9	before	before	ADP	_	12 maid	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maid	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 maid	amod
12	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passes	obl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 looks	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looks	nsubj
15	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 passes	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 looks	compound:prt
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 rampart	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rampart	det
19	rampart	rampart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looks	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rampart	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rampart	det
22	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rampart	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 green	punct
24	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rampart	amod
25	rampart	rampart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rampart	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rejoicing	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 rejoicing	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 children	det
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 rejoicing	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cheeks	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 cheeks	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 cheeks	nmod:poss
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cheeks	amod
34	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 children	appos
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 feet	cc
36	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 feet	amod
37	shoeless	shoeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 feet	amod
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 cheeks	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cheeks	punct
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 rejoicing	aux
41	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 rampart	conj
42	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	41 rejoicing	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 birds	punct
44	like	like	ADP	_	49 birds	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 birds	det
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 birds	amod
47	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 birds	amod
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 birds	amod
49	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 rejoicing	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drama	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the life drama			tree rules
2	pass	present	the life drama		before the old maid		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before maid=Location
3	look out	present	maid			upon the rampart	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	rejoice	present · progressive	the children			like the other free little birds; merrily property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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