Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening, sentence 2

Suddenly a little head emerged from one of them, and then half a body, the arms resting on the rim of the chimney-pot. '

Who acts: little head, arms · What happens: emerge, rest · To what, where: body, rim

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little head, arms), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 emerged	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 head	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 head	amod
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 emerged	nsubj
5	emerged	emerge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 emerged	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 body	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 body	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 half	advmod
13	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	15 body	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 body	det
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 emerged	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 arms	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 arms	det
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 body	conj
19	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 arms	acl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 rim	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rim	det
22	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 resting	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 pot	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pot	det
25	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pot	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 chimney	punct
27	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rim	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 emerged	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 emerged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	emerge	participle	a little head	half body and the arms				from one of words; suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from one=Initial_Location
2	rest	gerund	the arms not said here			the rim of the chimney pot			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rim=Location

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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