Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 21

All the charity children would just be going to school: and all the sailors who inhabited that quarter of the town would be there to see him standing in the pillory.

Who acts: charity children, sailors, quarter, creature · What happens: go, inhabit, be, see, stand · To what, where: sailors, school, creature, pillory

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charity children, sailors, quarter, creature), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 children	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
3	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 children	compound
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 going	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 school	case
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 sailors	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sailors	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sailors	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sailors	det
15	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 going	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 inhabited	nsubj
17	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sailors	acl:relcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 there	mark
19	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 there	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 town	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 quarter	nmod
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 there	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 there	cop
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 inhabited	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 there	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	obj
29	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 see	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 pillory	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pillory	det
32	pillory	pillory	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 standing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	would · progressive	all charity children	all sailors	school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
2	inhabit	past	all sailors				tree rules
3	is	would	quarter of the town			there property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	quarter of the town not said here	creature			tree rules
5	stand	gerund	creature not said here		the pillory		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pillory=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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