Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 4

In the taproom of the little inn sat the bear leader, eating his supper; the bear was tied up outside, behind the wood pile--poor Bruin, who did nobody any harm, though he looked grim enough.

Who acts: poor Bruin, half · What happens: sit, eat, tie up, do, look · To what, where: bear leader, taproom, supper, bear, wood pile, nobody

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 (poor Bruin, half), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 taproom	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 taproom	det
3	taproom	taproom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 inn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 inn	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 inn	amod
7	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taproom	nmod
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leader	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leader	compound
11	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eating	punct
13	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sat	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 supper	nmod:poss
15	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eating	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 tied	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bear	det
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tied	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tied	aux:pass
20	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sat	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 tied	compound:prt
22	outside	outside	ADV	_	20 tied	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pile	punct
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 pile	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pile	det
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pile	compound
27	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tied	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 Bruin	punct
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Bruin	amod
30	Bruin	Bruin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 pile	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 did	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 did	nsubj
33	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 Bruin	acl:relcl
34	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 did	obj
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 harm	det
36	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 did	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 looked	punct
38	though	though	SCONJ	_	40 looked	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 looked	nsubj
40	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tied	conj
41	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 looked	xcomp
42	enough	enough	ADV	_	41 grim	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		the bear leader	the taproom of the little inn		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme in taproom=Location
2	eat	gerund		half's supper			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
3	tie up	past · passive		the bear	the wood pile	outside property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	do	past	poor Bruin	nobody			tree rules
5	look	past	half			grim property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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