Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 27

He sat down close under me, and played with two little sticks as if they had been a stringed instrument; and he sang to it. '

Who acts: monk, sticks · What happens: sit down, play, be, sing · To what, where: stringed instrument, instrument

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monk, sticks), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	xcomp
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 close	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 played	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 played	cc
9	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 sticks	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sticks	nummod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sticks	amod
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 played	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 instrument	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 instrument	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 instrument	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 instrument	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 instrument	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 instrument	det
20	stringed	stringed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 instrument	amod
21	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sang	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sang	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sang	nsubj
25	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sang	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 sang	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	monk			close, down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	past	monk not said here			with two little sticks	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stick=Theme
3	is a	past · perfect	sticks = stick	a stringed instrument			tree rules
4	sing speech: express	past	monk		instrument		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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