Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 53

Then they entered the elfin hill, where the select and grand company were assembled, and so quickly had they appeared that they seemed to have been blown together.

Who acts: people · What happens: enter, assemble, have, appear, seem, blow · To what, where: elfin hill, select company

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 entered	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
5	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hill	compound
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 assembled	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 assembled	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 company	det
10	select	select	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 company	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grand	cc
12	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 select	conj
13	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 assembled	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 assembled	aux:pass
15	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hill	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 quickly	advmod
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 appeared	nsubj
22	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	ccomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 seemed	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 appeared	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	29 blown	mark
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 blown	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 blown	aux:pass
29	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 seemed	xcomp
30	together	together	ADV	_	29 blown	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	people	the elfin hill	then		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Destination
2	assemble	past · passive		the select company			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	have	past	people not said here			quickly property	tree rules
4	appear	past	people				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	seem	past	people				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	blow	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	people not said here			together property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»

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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