Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 81

On the floor, in the middle of the room, sat, like a Dalai-Lama, the insignificant “Self” of the person, quite confounded at his own greatness.

What happens: sit, confound · To what, where: floor, own greatness

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 floor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 floor	det
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 middle	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floor	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 middle	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 floor	punct
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Lama	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	18 Lama	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Lama	det
16	Dalai	Dalai	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Lama	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Dalai	punct
18	Lama	Lama	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 insignificant	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 insignificant	det
21	insignificant	insignificant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Lama	appos
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 Self	punct
23	Self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 insignificant	conj
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 insignificant	punct
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 person	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 person	det
27	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 insignificant	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 confounded	punct
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 confounded	advmod
30	confounded	confound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sat	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	34 greatness	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 greatness	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 greatness	amod
34	greatness	greatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 confounded	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past				the floor and the middle of the room		like a Dalai Lama	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
2	confound	participle				room's own greatness			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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