Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 37

I thought of the simple little room where little Bertel sat in his night-shirt by the spinning wheel.

Who acts: I, little Bertel · What happens: think, sit, spin · To what, where: night shirt

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 (I, little Bertel), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
5	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 sat	advmod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bertel	amod
10	Bertel	Bertel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 room	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 shirt	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shirt	nmod:poss
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shirt	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 night	punct
16	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 wheel	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wheel	det
19	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 wheel	amod
20	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	little Bertel	Bertel's night shirt	by the spinning wheel	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shirt=Location
3	spin	gerund				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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