Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 89

He will kiss every one in the room, great and small; yes, even the poor children who stand in the passage, or out in the street singing a carol about the 'Star of Bethlehem.'"

Who acts: angel, poor children · What happens: kiss, stand, sing · To what, where: one, room, passage, carol

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, poor children), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kiss	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kiss	aux
3	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kiss	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kiss	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 great	punct
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 room	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 small	cc
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 great	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 children	punct
14	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	19 children	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 children	punct
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 children	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 children	amod
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kiss	obl
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 stand	nsubj
21	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 children	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 passage	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 passage	det
24	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stand	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 out	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 out	cc
27	out	out	ADV	_	21 stand	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 street	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 street	det
30	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stand	obl
31	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 stand	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 carol	det
33	carol	carol	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 singing	obj
34	about	about	ADP	_	37 Star	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Star	det
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 Star	punct
37	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 carol	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Bethlehem	case
39	Bethlehem	Bethlehem	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Star	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kiss	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 kiss	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 kiss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kiss	future	angel	every one	the room	the poor children obl	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent
2	stand	present	the poor children		the passage	in the street; out property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in passage=Location
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the poor children not said here	a carol		about the Star of Bethlehem	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=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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