Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 55

But as the young ones were never boiled or laid in silver dishes, they concluded that the castle had fallen into decay, and that all the people in the world were dead; and as nobody contradicted them, they thought they must be right.

Who acts: children, castle, people, nobody · What happens: not boil, lay, conclude, fall, be, contradict · To what, where: young ones, silver dishes, decay, children · 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, castle, people, nobody), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 concluded	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 boiled	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 boiled	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boiled	aux:pass
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 boiled	advmod
8	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 concluded	advcl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 laid	cc
10	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 boiled	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 dishes	case
12	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dishes	compound
13	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 laid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boiled	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 concluded	nsubj
16	concluded	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fallen	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 castle	det
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fallen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fallen	aux
21	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 concluded	ccomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 decay	case
23	decay	decay	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fallen	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dead	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dead	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 dead	mark
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 people	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 dead	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 people	nmod
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dead	cop
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 concluded	advcl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 thought	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 thought	cc
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 contradicted	mark
38	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 contradicted	nsubj
39	contradicted	contradict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 thought	advcl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 contradicted	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 contradicted	punct
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 thought	nsubj
43	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 concluded	conj
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 right	nsubj
45	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 right	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 right	cop
47	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 thought	ccomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 concluded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not boil	past · passive		the young ones			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	lay	participle			silver dishes		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in dish=Destination
3	conclude	past	children = child				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	fall	past · perfect	the castle			into decay result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into decay=Result
5	is	past	all people in the world			dead property	tree rules
6	contradict	past	nobody	children = child			tree rules
7	think speech: other	past	children = child				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	must	children = child			right property	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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