Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 46

Then people heard the stories and poetry read, and it made them wiser and better; for all that was written had a good and sensible meaning, and a great blessing was contained in the words on this paper.

Who acts: people, stories, poetry · What happens: hear, read, make, write, have, contain · To what, where: stories, that, good meaning, great blessing, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, stories, poetry), 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	3 heard	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stories	det
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 read	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 poetry	cc
7	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stories	conj
8	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	obj
14	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 made	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 better	cc
16	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 wiser	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 written	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 written	mark
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 written	det:predet
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 written	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 written	aux:pass
22	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 had	advcl
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 meaning	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 meaning	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sensible	cc
27	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 good	conj
28	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 contained	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 contained	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 blessing	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 blessing	amod
33	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 contained	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 contained	aux:pass
35	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heard	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 words	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 words	det
38	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 contained	obl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 paper	case
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 paper	det
41	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 words	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	people			then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	read	present	the stories and poetry					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	poetry	stories = story			wise property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product
4	write	past · passive		that				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	have	past	people not said here	a good meaning				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient
6	contain	past · passive		a great blessing	the words on this paper			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in word=Location

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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