Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 6

Apprentice-boys, children of the poor, and even the poor people themselves, stood before the house, watching the lighted windows; and the watchman might easily fancy he was giving a party also, there were so many people in the streets.

Who acts: Apprentice boys, watchman, many people · What happens: stand, watch, light, fancy, give, be · To what, where: house, lighted windows, party

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apprentice boys, watchman, many 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	Apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boys	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Apprentice	punct
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stood	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 children	punct
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boys	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 poor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poor	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 children	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 people	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 people	cc
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 people	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 people	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boys	conj
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 people	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 boys	punct
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 watching	punct
22	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 stood	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 windows	det
24	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 windows	amod
25	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 watching	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 fancy	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fancy	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 watchman	det
29	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fancy	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fancy	aux
31	easily	easily	ADV	_	32 fancy	advmod
32	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stood	parataxis
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 giving	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 giving	aux
35	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 fancy	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 party	det
37	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 giving	obj
38	also	also	ADV	_	35 giving	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 were	punct
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 were	expl
41	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 giving	parataxis
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 many	advmod
43	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 people	amod
44	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 were	nsubj
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 streets	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 streets	det
47	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 people	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Apprentice boys and children of the poor and the poor people boys		the house		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before house=Location
2	watch	gerund	Apprentice boys and children of the poor and the poor people boys not said here	the lighted windows			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme
3	light	participle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fancy	might	the watchman			easily property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	give	past · progressive	watchman	a party			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme
6	be	past	many people in the streets		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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