Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 8
He had got tired of waiting down in the courtyard, and had found his way to the stairs.
Who acts: Bruin · What happens: get, wait down, find · To what, where: courtyard, way
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 (Bruin), 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 | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 waiting | mark |
| 6 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tired | advcl |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 waiting | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 courtyard | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 courtyard | det |
| 10 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waiting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 got | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 way | nmod:poss |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 stairs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stairs | det |
| 19 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 found | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Bruin | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wait down | gerund | Bruin not said here | the courtyard | down property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Location | |||
| 3 | find | past · perfect | Bruin's way | to the stairs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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