Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 3

She sat in splendid rooms, richly decorated with silk and velvet; not a breath of air was allowed to blow upon her, and no one was allowed to speak to her harshly, for she was nurse to the count's child.

Who acts: mother, breath, one · What happens: sit, decorate, allow, blow, speak, be · To what, where: splendid rooms, breath, one, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, breath, one), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 rooms	case
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rooms	amod
5	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 decorated	punct
7	richly	richly	ADV	_	8 decorated	advmod
8	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 silk	case
10	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 decorated	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 velvet	cc
12	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 silk	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 allowed	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 breath	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 breath	det
16	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 allowed	nsubj:pass
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 air	case
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 breath	nmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 allowed	aux:pass
20	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 blow	mark
22	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 allowed	xcomp
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 blow	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 allowed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 allowed	cc
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 allowed	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 allowed	aux:pass
30	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 allowed	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 speak	mark
32	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 allowed	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 speak	obl
35	harshly	harshly	ADV	_	32 speak	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 nurse	punct
37	for	for	ADP	_	40 nurse	case
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 nurse	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 nurse	cop
40	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 speak	obl
41	to	to	ADP	_	45 child	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 count	det
43	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 child	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 count	case
45	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 nurse	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	mother			splendid rooms		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	decorate	participle	mother not said here				with silk and velvet; richly property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silk=Theme
3	allow	past · passive		a breath of air				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	blow not said to happen	to-infinitive	a breath of air not said here				upon mother	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	allow	past · passive		no one				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	no one not said here		mother		harshly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
7	is	past	mother				for nurse; to the count's child	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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