Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 5

The coachman stretched himself, though I am very sure that he had been most comfortably asleep half the last stage.

Who acts: coachman, I · What happens: stretch, be · To what, where: coachman

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coachman, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:7303): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coachman	det
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	nsubj
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 stretched	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sure	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 sure	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sure	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sure	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 sure	advmod
10	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stretched	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 asleep	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asleep	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asleep	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 asleep	cop
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 comfortably	advmod
16	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	17 asleep	advmod
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sure	ccomp
18	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	21 stage	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stage	det
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stage	amod
21	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asleep	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	the coachman	coachman		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	is	present	I		sure property	tree rules
3	is	past · perfect	coachman		half last stage obl:unmarked; asleep, comfortably property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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