Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 49

Six glow-worms gave as much light as they could; but in other respects it was all very quiet; for the old snails could not bear festivities or a crowd.

Who acts: Six glow worms, worm, old snails · What happens: give, respect, be, not bear · To what, where: much light, other, festivities

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Six glow worms, worm, old snails), 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	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 worms	nummod
2	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worms	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 glow	punct
4	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 could	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 could	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 respects	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 respects	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 other	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 respects	obl
16	respects	respect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 quiet	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 quiet	cop
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 quiet	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 quiet	advmod
21	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 respects	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 bear	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 bear	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 snails	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 snails	amod
26	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bear	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bear	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 bear	advmod
29	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 respects	conj
30	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bear	obj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 crowd	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 crowd	det
33	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 festivities	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	Six glow worms	much light			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
2	respect	present			other		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	worm			all, quiet property	tree rules
4	not bear	could	the old snails	festivities or a crowd			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festivity=Patient

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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