Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 11

Father and mother were asleep; he looked at them, and looked at the spinning wheel, and presently a little naked foot peered out of the bed, and then a second foot, and then two little white legs.

Who acts: Father, pendulum, little naked foot · What happens: be, look, spin, peer · To what, where: second foot

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, pendulum, little naked foot), 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	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 mother	cc
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Father	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	nsubj
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 looked	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 wheel	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wheel	det
16	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 wheel	amod
17	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 peered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 peered	cc
20	presently	presently	ADV	_	25 peered	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 foot	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 foot	amod
23	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 foot	amod
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 peered	nsubj
25	peered	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looked	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 bed	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 bed	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bed	det
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 peered	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 foot	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 foot	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 foot	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 foot	det
34	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 foot	amod
35	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 peered	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 legs	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 legs	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 legs	advmod
39	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 legs	nummod
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 legs	amod
41	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 legs	amod
42	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 peered	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Father and mother		asleep property	tree rules
2	look	past	pendulum		at father	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
3	look	past			at the spinning wheel	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wheel=Theme
4	spin	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	peer	past	a little naked foot	a second foot	out the bed; two little white legs obl; presently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out bed=Theme

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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