Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 50

The following day, early in the morning, while the Clerk was still in bed, someone knocked at his door.

Who acts: Clerk, someone · What happens: follow, be, knock · To what, where: bed

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clerk, someone), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knocked	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 morning	punct
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 morning	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 morning	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bed	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 bed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Clerk	det
12	Clerk	Clerk	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 bed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bed	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	16 bed	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 bed	case
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 knocked	nsubj
19	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 door	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 door	nmod:poss
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knocked	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the Clerk	bed	still		tree rules
3	knock	past	someone		day	at Gave's door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

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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