Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 46

In the evening, when little Kay was at home, and half undressed, he climbed up on the chair by the window, and peeped out of the little hole.

Who acts: little Kay, account · What happens: be, undress, climb up, peep out · To what, where: home, half, chair, little hole

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Kay, account), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 climbed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 home	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 home	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Kay	amod
7	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 home	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 home	cop
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evening	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 climbed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 climbed	cc
13	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 climbed	compound
14	undressed	undress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 half	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 half	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 climbed	nsubj
17	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 climbed	compound:prt
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 chair	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chair	det
21	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 climbed	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 window	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 window	det
24	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 climbed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 peeped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 peeped	cc
27	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 climbed	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	32 hole	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 hole	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hole	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hole	amod
32	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 peeped	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	little Kay		home			tree rules
2	undress	participle		half not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	climb up	past	account		the chair	evening	by the window	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chair=Trajectory
4	peep out	past	account not said here	the little hole				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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