Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 22

When the play at the little theatre began, the rest sat and looked on; they were requested to applaud and stamp, or crack, when they felt gratified with what they saw.

Who acts: play, rest, cushions · What happens: begin, sit, look on, request, applaud, stamp · To what, where: cushions

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 (play, rest, cushions), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 play	det
3	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 theatre	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 theatre	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 theatre	amod
7	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 play	nmod
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 requested	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 looked	compound:prt
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 requested	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 requested	aux:pass
19	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	to	to	PART	_	21 applaud	mark
21	applaud	applaud	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 requested	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stamp	cc
23	stamp	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 applaud	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 crack	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 crack	cc
26	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stamp	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 felt	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 felt	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 felt	nsubj
30	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 crack	conj
31	gratified	gratify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 felt	xcomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 what	case
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 gratified	obl
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 saw	nsubj
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 requested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	the play at the little theatre		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	sit	past	the rest		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look on	past	the rest not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	request	past · passive		cushions = cushion	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	applaud	to-infinitive			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	stamp	infinitive			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	crack	infinitive			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	feel	past	cushions = cushion		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	gratify	participle	cushions = cushion not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
10	see	past	cushions = cushion		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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