Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 53

And when they had finished speaking, the old couple crept into their houses, and came out no more; for they slept.

Who acts: children, old couple · What happens: finish, speak, creep, come out, sleep · To what, where: houses, more · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children, old couple), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 finished	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 finished	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 finished	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 crept	advcl
6	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 crept	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 speaking	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 couple	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 couple	amod
10	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crept	nsubj
11	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 houses	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 houses	nmod:poss
14	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crept	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crept	conj
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 came	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 slept	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 slept	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 slept	nsubj
24	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crept	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	children = child				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	gerund	the old couple not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	creep	past	the old couple		children's houses		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination
4	come out	past	the old couple not said here	more		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	sleep	past	children = child				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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