Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 68

They all thought this was affectation, and because she did not wish to sing excepting in the parlor, when on the table with the grand people.

Who acts: people, cutter · What happens: think, be, not wish, sing, except · To what, where: affectation, table, parlor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, cutter), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 thought	advmod
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 affectation	det
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 affectation	cop
6	affectation	affectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wish	cc
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 wish	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wish	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wish	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 wish	advmod
13	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sing	mark
15	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wish	xcomp
16	excepting	except	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 sing	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 parlor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 parlor	det
19	parlor	parlor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 excepting	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 table	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 table	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wish	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 people	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 people	det
27	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 people	amod
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 table	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	people			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a	past		this affectation		tree rules
3	not wish	past · do-support	cutter		the table with the grand people	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	sing speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	cutter not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	except	gerund	cutter not said here		the parlor	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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