Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 82

The children then danced about with their pretty toys, and no one noticed the tree, except the children's maid who came and peeped among the branches to see if an apple or a fig had been forgotten.

Who acts: children, one, maid · What happens: dance, notice, come, peep, see, forget · To what, where: tree, apple

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, one, maid), 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	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 danced	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 danced	advmod
4	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 danced	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 toys	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 toys	nmod:poss
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 toys	amod
9	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 danced	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 noticed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 noticed	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 noticed	nsubj
14	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 danced	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 noticed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 maid	punct
18	except	except	ADP	_	22 maid	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 maid	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 children	case
22	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 noticed	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 maid	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 peeped	cc
26	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 noticed	conj
27	among	among	ADP	_	29 branches	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 branches	det
29	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 peeped	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 peeped	advcl
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 forgotten	mark
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 apple	det
34	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 forgotten	nsubj:pass
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 fig	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 fig	det
37	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 apple	conj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 forgotten	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 forgotten	aux:pass
40	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 see	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	the children		then	with children's pretty toys; about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	notice	past	no one	the tree		except the children's maid	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
3	come	past	the children's maid				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	peep	past	no one not said here			among the branches	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among branch=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	no one not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	forget a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		a apple or a fig			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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