Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 154

Then the children, who were at play, came and seated themselves in front of the fire, and looked at it and cried, "Pop, pop."

Who acts: children · What happens: be, come, seat, look, cry · To what, where: play, children, front, Pop

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 play	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 play	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 play	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 play	case
8	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 children	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 play	punct
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seated	cc
12	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 seated	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 front	case
15	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seated	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 fire	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 front	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looked	cc
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looked	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cried	cc
25	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 looked	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Pop	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Pop	punct
28	Pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cried	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pop	punct
30	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Pop	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the children		play			tree rules
2	come	past	the children			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seat	past	the children not said here	children = child	front of the fire			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Value in front=Location
4	look	past	the children not said here				at front	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
5	cry speech: express	past	the children not said here	Pop and pop				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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