Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 48

“I cannot bear it any longer!” said the pewter soldier, who sat on the drawers.

Who acts: pewter soldier · What happens: not bear, say, sit · To what, where: book, drawers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pewter soldier), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 bear	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bear	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bear	advmod
5	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bear	obj
7	any	any	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 bear	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 bear	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 bear	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 soldier	det
13	pewter	pewter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 soldier	amod
14	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 soldier	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 drawers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 drawers	det
20	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sat	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bear in a quote	can	the pewter soldier = soldier	book		long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	say speech: express	past	the pewter soldier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit	past	the pewter soldier		the drawers		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on drawer=Location

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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