Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 7

The conversation on this topic was only interrupted for a moment by the arrival of a newspaper, which did not, however, contain much worth reading, and while it is still going on we will pay a visit to the ante-room, in which cloaks, sticks, and goloshes were carefully placed.

Who acts: arrival, newspaper, Conversation, we · What happens: interrupt, not do, contain, go, pay, place · To what, where: conversation, worth reading, visit, cloaks, goloshes

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 (arrival, newspaper, Conversation, we), 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 conversation	det
2	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 interrupted	nsubj:pass
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 topic	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 topic	det
5	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conversation	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 interrupted	aux:pass
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 interrupted	advmod
8	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 moment	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 interrupted	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 arrival	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 arrival	det
14	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 interrupted	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 newspaper	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 newspaper	det
17	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arrival	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 newspaper	acl:relcl
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 did	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 contain	punct
23	however	however	ADV	_	25 contain	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 contain	punct
25	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 interrupted	parataxis
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 worth	advmod
27	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 reading	amod
28	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 contain	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 going	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 going	cc
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 going	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 going	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 going	aux
34	still	still	ADV	_	35 going	advmod
35	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 contain	advcl
36	on	on	SCONJ	_	39 pay	mark
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 pay	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 pay	aux
39	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 going	xcomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 visit	det
41	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pay	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	46 room	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 room	det
44	ante	ante	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 room	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 ante	punct
46	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pay	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 cloaks	punct
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 cloaks	case
49	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	50 cloaks	det
50	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 pay	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sticks	punct
52	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 cloaks	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 placed	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 placed	cc
55	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 placed	nsubj:pass
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 placed	aux:pass
57	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	58 placed	advmod
58	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 interrupted	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interrupt	past · passive	the arrival of a newspaper	the conversation on this topic		moment		tree rules
2	not do	past	a newspaper					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	contain	present		worth reading			however property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reading=Theme
4	go	present · progressive	Conversation			still		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pay	future	we	a visit	which cloaks and sticks		to the ante room	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
6	place	past · passive		goloshes			carefully property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme
7	arrive		a newspaper					nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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