Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 13

Presently the eldest boy took his drum, and beat upon it till it rattled again; the bear rose upon his hind legs, and began to dance.

Who acts: eldest boy, drum, bear · What happens: take, beat, rattle, rise, begin, dance · To what, where: drum, hind legs

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 (eldest boy, drum, bear), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	5 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 drum	nmod:poss
7	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 beat	cc
10	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 took	conj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 beat	obl
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 rattled	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rattled	nsubj
15	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beat	advcl
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 rattled	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 rose	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bear	det
19	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rose	nsubj
20	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 legs	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 legs	nmod:poss
23	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 legs	amod
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rose	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 began	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rose	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 dance	mark
29	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the eldest boy	boy's drum			presently property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme
2	beat	infinitive	the eldest boy not said here		drum			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
3	rattle	past	drum			again		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rise	past	the bear		boy's hind legs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon leg=Location
5	begin	past	the bear not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	dance	to-infinitive	the bear not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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