Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 27

Two of the smallest soon became tired and returned to the town; two little girls sat down and made garlands of flowers, they, therefore, did not go on.

Who acts: Two, two little girls, girls · What happens: become, return, sit down, make, not go on · To what, where: garlands

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two, two little girls, girls), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 became	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 smallest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smallest	det
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 became	obl
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 became	advmod
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 returned	cc
9	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tired	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 town	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returned	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 girls	nummod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 girls	amod
16	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	advcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sat	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sat	conj
21	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 made	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 flowers	case
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 garlands	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 they	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 they	punct
27	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 therefore	punct
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 go	advmod
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 became	xcomp
32	on	on	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	Two		of the smallest; soon, tired property	tree rules
2	return	participle	Two not said here		to the town result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result
3	sit down	past	two little girls			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	two little girls not said here	garlands of flowers		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garland=Product
5	not go on	past · do-support	girls = girl		therefore property	vn function-105.2.1 «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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