Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 8

Here sat two maidens, one young, and the other old, as if they had come and were waiting to accompany their mistresses home; but on looking at them more closely, it could easily be seen that they were no common servants.

Who acts: maidens · What happens: sit, come, wait, accompany, look, see · To what, where: two maidens, mistresses, Conversation, common servants

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 (maidens), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sat	advmod
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 maidens	nummod
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 young	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 young	nummod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maidens	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 old	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 old	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 old	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sat	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 waiting	cc
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 waiting	aux
21	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 come	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 accompany	mark
23	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 waiting	xcomp
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mistresses	nmod:poss
25	mistresses	mistress	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 accompany	obj
26	home	home	ADV	_	23 accompany	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 seen	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 seen	cc
29	on	on	SCONJ	_	30 looking	mark
30	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 seen	advcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looking	obl
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 closely	advmod
34	closely	closely	ADV	_	30 looking	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 looking	punct
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 seen	nsubj:pass
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 seen	aux
38	easily	easily	ADV	_	40 seen	advmod
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 seen	aux:pass
40	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 servants	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 servants	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 servants	cop
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 servants	det
45	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 servants	amod
46	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 seen	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		two maidens	here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme
2	come a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	maidens = maiden				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wait	past · progressive	maidens = maiden not said here				tree rules
4	accompany	to-infinitive	maidens = maiden not said here	maidens's mistresses		home property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Theme
5	look	gerund				at maidens = maiden; closely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
6	see	could · passive		Conversation		easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
7	is a	past	maidens = maiden	no common servants			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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