Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 13

He looked round once more, to see if father and mother were still asleep--yes, they slept; and now he crept softly, softly, in his short little nightgown, to the spinning wheel, and began to spin.

Who acts: pendulum, father · What happens: look round, see, be, sleep, creep, spin · To what, where: short little nightgown

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 (pendulum, father), 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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 looked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	conj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 asleep	mark
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asleep	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mother	cc
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	conj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asleep	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 asleep	advmod
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 see	ccomp
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 slept	punct
17	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	20 slept	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 slept	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 slept	nsubj
20	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 see	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 crept	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 crept	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 crept	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 crept	nsubj
25	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
26	softly	softly	ADV	_	25 crept	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 softly	punct
28	softly	softly	ADV	_	25 crept	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 nightgown	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 nightgown	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 nightgown	nmod:poss
32	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 nightgown	amod
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 nightgown	amod
34	nightgown	nightgown	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crept	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wheel	punct
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 wheel	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wheel	det
38	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 wheel	amod
39	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crept	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 began	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 began	cc
42	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 spin	mark
44	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 began	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	look round	past	pendulum			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	to-infinitive	pendulum not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	father and mother		still	asleep property	tree rules
4	sleep	past	father				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	creep	past	pendulum	pendulum's short little nightgown	now	to the spinning wheel; softly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nightgown=Trajectory
6	spin	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	begin	past	pendulum not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	spin	to-infinitive	pendulum not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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