Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 29

But little Tuk was no longer lying down: all at once he was on horseback.

Who acts: little Tuk, many · What happens: lie down, be · To what, where: all, horseback

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 (little Tuk, many), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 lying	cc
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Tuk	amod
3	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lying	aux
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 lying	advmod
7	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 lying	advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 lying	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 horseback	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 horseback	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 horseback	cop
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 horseback	case
16	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past · progressive	little Tuk	all				down, long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	many			horseback			tree rules

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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