Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 3

There sat the poor little fellow, with his sister on his lap, and he sang to her all the songs he knew; and he glanced the while from time to time into the geography-book that lay open before him.

Who acts: Charles, geography book · What happens: sit, sing, know, glance, lie · To what, where: poor little fellow, songs, Augusta

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 (Charles, geography book), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 sat	expl
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sister	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 sister	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 lap	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lap	nmod:poss
13	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sister	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sang	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sang	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sang	nsubj
17	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sang	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 songs	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 songs	det
22	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sang	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 songs	acl:relcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 glanced	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 glanced	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 glanced	nsubj
28	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 while	det
30	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 glanced	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 time	case
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 glanced	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 time	case
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 time	nmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	39 book	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 book	det
37	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 book	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 geography	punct
39	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 glanced	obl
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 lay	nsubj
41	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 book	acl:relcl
42	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 lay	xcomp
43	before	before	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 lay	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past		the poor little fellow		there		with Charles's sister on Charles's lap	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fellow=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	Charles	all songs	Augusta				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	know	past	Charles	all songs not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
4	glance	past	Charles				time; while	into the geography book	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into book=Theme
5	lie	past	the geography book				before Charles	open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=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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