Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourth Evening, sentence 9

The male and female servants stood outside, peeping through the chinks, although a real policeman was inside, threatening them with a stick.

Who acts: male, real policeman · What happens: stand, peep, be, threaten · To what, where: male

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (male, real policeman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 male	det
2	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 servants	cc
4	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 servants	amod
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 male	conj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 stood	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 peeping	punct
9	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stood	advcl
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 chinks	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chinks	det
12	chinks	chink	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 peeping	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 inside	punct
14	although	although	SCONJ	_	19 inside	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 policeman	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 policeman	amod
17	policeman	policeman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 inside	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 inside	cop
19	inside	inside	ADV	_	9 peeping	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 threatening	punct
21	threatening	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 peeping	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 threatening	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 stick	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 stick	det
25	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threatening	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the male and female servants		outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	peep	gerund	the male and female servants not said here		through the chinks	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through chink=Theme
3	is	past	a real policeman		inside property	tree rules
4	threaten	gerund	the male and female servants not said here	male	with a stick	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=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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