Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 27

Beside them, on laths and perches, sat nearly a hundred pigeons, all asleep, seemingly; but yet they moved a little when the robber maiden came.

Who acts: laths, robber maiden · What happens: perch, sit, move, come · To what, where: hundred pigeons, little

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laths, robber maiden), 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	Beside	beside	ADP	_	2 them	case
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laths	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laths	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 laths	case
5	laths	lath	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 perches	cc
7	perches	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laths	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laths	punct
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	12 hundred	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hundred	det
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pigeons	nummod
13	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asleep	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 asleep	det
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sat	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemingly	punct
18	seemingly	seemingly	ADV	_	16 asleep	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 moved	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 moved	cc
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 moved	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 moved	nsubj
23	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 moved	obl:unmarked
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 came	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 maiden	det
28	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 maiden	compound
29	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 moved	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	perch	present	laths not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	laths	hundred pigeons		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pigeon=Theme
3	move	past	laths = lath	a little	yet	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the robber maiden			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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