Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 35

He had a dirty little room close by the pigsty; and there he sat the whole day, and worked.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: have, sit, work · To what, where: dirty little room

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 room	det
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 pigsty	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pigsty	det
10	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 close	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 sat	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 worked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 worked	cc
21	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	Prince	a dirty little room			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
2	sit	past	Prince		there	day	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	work	past	Prince not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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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