Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 26

It was not worth much, but it was very well played, and all the characters turned their painted sides to the audience, for they were made only to be seen on one side.

Who acts: noise, characters · What happens: not be, play, turn, paint, make, see · To what, where: noise, painted sides, audience, characters, one side

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 (noise, characters), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worth	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worth	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 worth	advmod
4	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	4 worth	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 played	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 played	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 played	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 played	aux:pass
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 well	advmod
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 played	advmod
12	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 worth	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turned	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 characters	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 characters	det
17	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 turned	nsubj
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worth	parataxis
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sides	nmod:poss
20	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sides	amod
21	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 turned	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 audience	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 audience	det
24	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 made	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 made	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 made	aux:pass
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 turned	conj
30	only	only	ADV	_	33 seen	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	33 seen	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 seen	aux:pass
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 made	advcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 side	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 side	nummod
36	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	noise			worth property	tree rules
2	play	past · passive		noise		well property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	turn	past	all characters	characters's painted sides	the audience		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent side=Theme to audience=Trajectory
4	paint	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	past · passive		characters = character			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
6	see	to-infinitive · passive			one side		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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