Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 15

Or did he wish to sit at the rich feast, wiping his mouth with silver paper between each course?

Who acts: occupation · What happens: wish, sit, wipe · To what, where: rich feast, mouth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (occupation), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	4 wish	cc
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wish	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wish	nsubj
4	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 feast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feast	det
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feast	amod
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wiping	punct
12	wiping	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sit	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wiping	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 paper	case
16	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 paper	compound
17	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wiping	obl
18	between	between	ADP	_	20 course	case
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 course	det
20	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 paper	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	past · do-support	occupation				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	occupation not said here		the rich feast		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at feast=Location
3	wipe	gerund	occupation not said here	occupation's mouth		with silver paper between each course	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mouth=Source

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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