Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 10

Upon this there was a great uproar; even the engravings, which hung in frames on the wall, turned round in their excitement, and showed that they had a wrong side to them, although they had not the least intention to expose themselves in this way, or to object to the game.

Who acts: this, engravings, frames · What happens: be, hang, turn round, show, have, expose · To what, where: frames, wall, excitement, wrong side, least intention, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, engravings, frames), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	7 uproar	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 uproar	nsubj
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 uproar	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 uproar	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 uproar	amod
7	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 engravings	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 engravings	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 engravings	det
11	engravings	engraving	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 uproar	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hung	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hung	nsubj
14	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 engravings	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 frames	case
16	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hung	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 wall	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wall	det
19	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turned	punct
21	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 wall	acl
22	round	round	ADV	_	21 turned	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 excitement	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 excitement	nmod:poss
25	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turned	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 showed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 showed	cc
28	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hung	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 showed	ccomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 side	det
33	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 side	amod
34	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 side	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
38	although	although	SCONJ	_	40 had	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 showed	conj
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 intention	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 intention	det
43	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 intention	amod
44	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 expose	mark
46	expose	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 intention	acl
47	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 expose	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 way	case
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 way	det
50	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 expose	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 object	punct
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 object	cc
53	to	to	PART	_	54 object	mark
54	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obl
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 game	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 game	det
57	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 object	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 engravings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this			upon a great uproar	tree rules
2	hang	past	the engravings		frames	on the wall	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in frame=Location
3	turn round	participle		the wall not said here	frames's excitement	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in excitement=Trajectory
4	show	past	the engravings not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	past	frames = frame	a wrong side		to engravings = engraving	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient
6	have	past	frames = frame	the least intention		object to the game obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient
7	expose	to-infinitive	frames = frame not said here	frames = frame	this way		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Topic
8	excite		frames = frame				nom excitement «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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