Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 12

He lay down upon the ground, the youngest boy clambered on his back, and bending down a little head of golden curls, played at hiding in the beast's shaggy skin.

Who acts: Moon, youngest boy · What happens: lie down, clamber, bend down, play · To what, where: ground, back, little head, hiding

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, youngest boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 clambered	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
9	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clambered	nsubj
11	clambered	clamber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 back	nmod:poss
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clambered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bending	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bending	cc
17	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 clambered	advcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 bending	compound:prt
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 head	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 head	amod
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bending	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 curls	case
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 curls	amod
24	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 head	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 played	punct
26	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 bending	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 hiding	case
28	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 played	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	34 skin	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 beast	det
31	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 skin	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 beast	case
33	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 skin	amod
34	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 played	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Moon		the ground	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location
2	clamber	past	the youngest boy		Moon's back		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
3	bend down	gerund	the youngest boy not said here	a little head of golden curls			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
4	play	participle	the youngest boy not said here		hiding	in the beast's shaggy skin	vn performance-26.7-1 «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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