Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 75

And now the folding doors were thrown open, and a troop of children rushed in as if they intended to upset the tree; they were followed more silently by their elders.

Who acts: doors, elders · What happens: throw, rush in, intend, upset, follow · To what, where: folding doors, children, tree, doors

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 (doors, elders), 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	_	7 thrown	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 thrown	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doors	det
4	folding	folding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doors	compound
5	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thrown	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thrown	aux:pass
7	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thrown	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 troop	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 troop	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 troop	det
12	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thrown	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 children	case
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 troop	nmod
15	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 children	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	15 rushed	compound:prt
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 intended	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 intended	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 intended	nsubj
20	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rushed	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 upset	mark
22	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 intended	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 upset	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 followed	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 followed	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 followed	aux:pass
28	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 thrown	advcl
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 silently	advmod
30	silently	silently	ADV	_	28 followed	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 elders	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 elders	nmod:poss
33	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 followed	obl:agent
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thrown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · passive		the folding doors	now	a troop of children obl; open property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	rush in	participle		children not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	intend	past	doors = door				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	upset not said to happen	to-infinitive	doors = door not said here	the tree			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tree=Experiencer
5	follow	past · passive	doors's elders	doors = door		silently property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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