Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 13

He therefore put his geography-book under his pillow, because he had heard that was a very good thing to do when one wants to learn one's lesson; but one cannot, however, rely upon it entirely.

Who acts: thought, that, one · What happens: put, hear, be, do, want, learn · To what, where: geography book, pillow, good thing, lesson · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, that, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 book	nmod:poss
5	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 book	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 geography	punct
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 pillow	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pillow	nmod:poss
10	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 heard	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	aux
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 put	conj
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 thing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thing	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thing	acl
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 wants	advmod
25	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wants	nsubj
26	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 do	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 learn	mark
28	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wants	xcomp
29	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lesson	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 one	case
31	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 learn	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 can	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 can	cc
34	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 can	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 put	advcl
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 can	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 rely	punct
38	however	however	ADV	_	40 rely	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 rely	punct
40	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 rely	obl
43	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	40 rely	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	thought	thought's geography book	thought's pillow	therefore property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme under pillow=Destination
2	hear	past · perfect	thought				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	that	a good thing			tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	thought not said here				tree rules
5	want	present	one				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	one not said here	one's lesson			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
7	rely	present	thought not said here			upon lesson; entirely, however property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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