Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 2

One half of the company were already seated at the card-tables, the other half seemed to be waiting the result of their hostess's question, "Well, how shall we amuse ourselves?"

Who acts: other half, we, hostess · What happens: seat, seem, wait, amuse, result, question · To what, where: One half, card tables, result, ourselves, question

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other half, we, hostess), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 half	nummod
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 seated	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 company	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 company	det
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 half	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seated	aux:pass
7	already	already	ADV	_	8 seated	advmod
8	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 tables	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tables	det
11	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tables	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 card	punct
13	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seated	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 half	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 half	amod
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seated	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 waiting	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 waiting	aux
21	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 seemed	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 result	det
23	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 waiting	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 question	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hostess	nmod:poss
26	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 question	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 hostess	case
28	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 result	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 amuse	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 amuse	punct
31	Well	well	INTJ	_	36 amuse	discourse
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 amuse	punct
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 amuse	advmod
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 amuse	aux
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 amuse	nsubj
36	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 waiting	advcl
37	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 amuse	obj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 seated	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seat	past · passive		One half of the company	the card tables	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
2	seem	past	the other half			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	wait	to-infinitive · progressive	the other half not said here	the result of tables's hostess's question		tree rules
4	amuse in a quote	shall	we	ourselves		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer
5	result			tables's hostess's question		nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
6	question		tables's hostess			nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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