Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 12
People of every description entered the room, and, according to their position in society, so dared they to express their admiration.
Who acts: People · What happens: enter, accord, dare, express, admire · To what, where: room, People, admiration
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 description | case |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 description | det |
| 4 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 People | nmod |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dared | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 position | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 according | fixed |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 position | nmod:poss |
| 14 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dared | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 society | case |
| 16 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 position | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dared | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 dared | advmod |
| 19 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entered | conj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dared | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 express | mark |
| 22 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 dared | xcomp |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 admiration | nmod:poss |
| 24 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 express | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | People of every description | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | dare | past | People of every description not said here | People | accord People's position in society | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | express | to-infinitive | People of every description not said here | People's admiration | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiration=Theme | ||||
| 5 | admire | People | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=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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