Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 9

For hours together, when his mother was spinning, he would sit quietly by her side, watching the murmuring spindle and the revolving wheel, and as he sat he thought of many things.

Who acts: mother, pendulum · What happens: spin, sit, watch, think · To what, where: murmuring spindle

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 (mother, pendulum), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 hours	case
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sit	obl
3	together	together	ADV	_	13 sit	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 together	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 spinning	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spinning	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spinning	aux
9	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sit	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spinning	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sit	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 sit	aux
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	13 sit	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 side	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 side	nmod:poss
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sit	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 watching	punct
19	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sit	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 spindle	det
21	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spindle	compound
22	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watching	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wheel	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wheel	det
25	revolving	revolving	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wheel	compound
26	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spindle	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sat	cc
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 sat	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sat	nsubj
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sit	parataxis
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thought	nsubj
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sat	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 things	case
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 things	amod
36	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 thought	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past · progressive	pendulum's mother				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	would	pendulum		hour	by mother's side; quietly, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
3	watch	gerund	pendulum not said here	the murmuring spindle and the revolving wheel			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spindle=Theme
4	sit	past	pendulum				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	past	pendulum			of many things	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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