Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 27

In the horn of plenty sat with folded arms a little tiny love-god, contemplating the great solemn river-god, a true picture of the boy at the spinning wheel--the features were exactly the same.

Who acts: features · What happens: sit, fold, contemplate, be · To what, where: little tiny love god, horn, great solemn river god

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 (features), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 horn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horn	det
3	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 plenty	case
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horn	nmod
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 arms	case
8	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 arms	amod
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sat	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 god	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 god	amod
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 god	amod
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 god	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct
15	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 contemplating	punct
17	contemplating	contemplate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sat	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 god	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 god	amod
20	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 god	amod
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 god	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 river	punct
23	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 contemplating	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 picture	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 picture	det
26	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 picture	amod
27	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 god	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 boy	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 boy	det
30	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 picture	nmod
31	at	at	ADP	_	34 wheel	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wheel	det
33	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wheel	compound
34	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 boy	nmod
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 same	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 features	det
37	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 same	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 same	cop
39	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	41 same	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 same	det
41	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 picture	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		a little tiny love god	the horn of plenty	with folded arms	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in horn=Location
2	fold	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	contemplate	gerund		the great solemn river god			tree rules
4	is	past	the features			exactly, same property	tree rules

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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