Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 55

The sea folks sat at table in great water-tubs, and they said it was just like being at home.

Who acts: sea folks, folks, arrangement · What happens: sit, say, be · To what, where: table · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sea folks, folks, arrangement), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 folks	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 folks	compound
3	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 table	case
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 tubs	case
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tubs	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tubs	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 water	punct
11	tubs	tub	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 home	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 home	cop
18	just	just	ADV	_	22 home	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 home	case
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 home	cop
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 home	case
22	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the sea folks	table	in great water tubs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	folks = folk			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	arrangement		like home	tree rules

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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