Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 17

The coachman looked nervously round every now and then--I fancy he half expected to see her sitting on the coffin, in her yellow satin wrapper.

Who acts: coachman, I, van · What happens: look, fancy, expect, see, sit · To what, where: van, coffin

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coachman, I, van), 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	2 coachman	det
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nervously	nervously	ADV	_	5 round	advmod
5	round	round	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 looked	conj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 looked	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 then	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 now	conj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 fancy	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fancy	nsubj
12	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 expected	nsubj
14	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 expected	advmod
15	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fancy	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 expected	xcomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 see	xcomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 coffin	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 coffin	det
22	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sitting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wrapper	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 wrapper	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wrapper	nmod:poss
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wrapper	amod
27	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wrapper	compound
28	wrapper	wrapper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sitting	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the coachman			now	round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	fancy	present	I					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	expect	past	coachman				half property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	coachman not said here	van				tree rules
5	sit	gerund	van not said here		the coffin		in van's yellow satin wrapper	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on coffin=Location

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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