Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 101

In the peasant's cottage the violin sounded, and games were played for apple quarters; even the poorest child said, "It is beautiful in winter!"

Who acts: violin, poorest child · What happens: sound, play, say, be · To what, where: cottage, games · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (violin, poorest child), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 cottage	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peasant	det
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cottage	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 peasant	case
5	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sounded	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 violin	det
7	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sounded	nsubj
8	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 played	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 played	cc
11	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 played	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 played	aux:pass
13	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sounded	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 quarters	case
15	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 quarters	compound
16	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 played	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
18	even	even	ADV	_	22 said	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 child	det
20	poorest	poor	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 child	amod
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sounded	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 beautiful	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 beautiful	punct
25	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 beautiful	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 beautiful	cop
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 winter	case
29	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beautiful	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 beautiful	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	the violin		the peasant's cottage			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location
2	play	past · passive		games			for apple quarters	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for quarter=Eventuality
3	say speech: express	past	the poorest child					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	violin			winter	beautiful 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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