Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 13

So he put them on quickly, stuck his papers in his pocket, and took besides a few under his arm, intending to look them through at home to make the necessary notes.

Who acts: Clerk · What happens: put on, stick, beside, intend, look through, make · To what, where: police, papers, pocket, few, arm, home

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clerk), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 put	compound:prt
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stuck	punct
8	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 papers	nmod:poss
10	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stuck	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pocket	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pocket	nmod:poss
13	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 besides	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 besides	cc
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 besides	aux
17	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 few	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 besides	obj
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 arm	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arm	nmod:poss
22	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 besides	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 intending	punct
24	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 besides	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 intending	xcomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 look	obj
28	through	through	ADP	_	26 look	compound:prt
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 home	case
30	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 look	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 look	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 notes	det
34	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 notes	amod
35	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 make	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put on	past	Clerk	police		quickly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
2	stick	past	Clerk not said here	Clerk's papers	Clerk's pocket		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Theme in pocket=Destination
3	beside	past	Clerk not said here	a few	Clerk's arm		tree rules
4	intend	gerund	Clerk not said here				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	look through not said to happen	to-infinitive	Clerk not said here	police	home		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Attribute
6	make	to-infinitive	Clerk not said here	the necessary notes			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset note=Product

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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