Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 56

All behaved themselves properly excepting the two young northern goblins; they put their legs on the table and thought they were all right.

Who acts: folks · What happens: behave, except, put, think, be · To what, where: All, two young northern goblins, legs, 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 (folks), 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	2 behaved	nsubj:pass
2	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 behaved	obj
4	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 excepting	advmod
5	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 behaved	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goblins	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 goblins	nummod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 goblins	amod
9	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 goblins	amod
10	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 excepting	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 behaved	parataxis
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 legs	nmod:poss
15	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 put	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 right	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 right	cop
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 right	advmod
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thought	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 behaved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	behave	participle · passive		All			tree rules
2	except	gerund		the two young northern goblins		properly property	tree rules
3	put	past	folks = folk	folks's legs	the table		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme on table=Destination
4	think speech: other	past	folks = folk not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	folks = folk			all, right property	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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