Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening, sentence 4

It was the little chimney-sweeper, who had for the first time in his life crept through a chimney, and stuck out his head at the top. '

Who acts: voice, little chimney sweeper, first time · What happens: be, have, creep, stick out · To what, where: little chimney sweeper, life, head, top

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 (voice, little chimney sweeper, first time), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sweeper	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sweeper	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sweeper	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sweeper	amod
5	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sweeper	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 chimney	punct
7	sweeper	sweeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sweeper	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 life	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 life	nmod:poss
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crept	obl
18	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 time	acl:relcl
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 chimney	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chimney	det
21	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crept	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stuck	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stuck	cc
24	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 stuck	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stuck	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 top	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 top	det
30	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stuck	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sweeper	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 sweeper	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	voice	the little chimney sweeper				tree rules
2	have	past	the little chimney sweeper			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	creep	past	the first time not said here		hip's life		through a chimney	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Trajectory
4	stick out	past	the little chimney sweeper not said here	hip's head	the top			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent head=Theme at top=Destination

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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