Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 41

They looked so inviting that the children could not help stopping; and they remained there so long eating, that their mouths and cheeks became quite black with the juice.

Who acts: factory, children, mouths · What happens: look, invite, not help, stop, remain, eat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (factory, children, mouths), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	inviting	invite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 help	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 help	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 help	advmod
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 inviting	advcl
11	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 help	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 remained	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remained	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remained	nsubj
15	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 remained	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 remained	advmod
19	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 long	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 became	mark
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouths	nmod:poss
23	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 became	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cheeks	cc
25	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mouths	conj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 remained	conj
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 black	advmod
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	xcomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 juice	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 juice	det
31	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 black	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	factory			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	invite	gerund	factory not said here			vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	not help	could	the children			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	stop not said to happen	gerund	the children not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	remain	past	factory	there	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	eat	gerund	factory not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	become	past	factory's mouths and cheeks		black property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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