Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 68

“Hem! hem!” said the clerk breathlessly, and quite exhausted he seated himself on a bank.

Who acts: Hem, Clerk · What happens: say, exhaust, seat · To what, where: clerk, bank · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hem, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hem	punct
2	Hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hem	punct
4	hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hem	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hem	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hem	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clerk	det
9	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	breathlessly	breathlessly	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 exhausted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 exhausted	cc
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 exhausted	advmod
14	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seated	nsubj
16	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 exhausted	ccomp
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 seated	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 bank	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bank	det
20	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seated	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hem and hem	the clerk		breathlessly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent clerk=Topic
2	exhaust	past	Hem and hem not said here				tree rules
3	seat	past	Clerk	Clerk	a bank		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value

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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