Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 11

One of them hopped about on one leg in his long white nightgown, and the other stood on a chair surrounded by the clothes of all the children, and declared he was acting Grecian statues.

Who acts: One, other, he · What happens: hop about, stand, surround, declare, act · To what, where: one leg, chair, Grecian statues · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, other, he), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hopped	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 hopped	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 leg	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 leg	nummod
8	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hopped	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 nightgown	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nightgown	nmod:poss
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nightgown	amod
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nightgown	amod
13	nightgown	nightgown	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leg	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stood	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stood	nsubj
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hopped	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 chair	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chair	det
21	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obl
22	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 chair	acl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 clothes	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 clothes	det
25	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 surrounded	obl:agent
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 children	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 children	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 children	det
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 clothes	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 declared	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 declared	cc
32	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stood	conj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 acting	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 acting	aux
35	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 declared	ccomp
36	Grecian	grecian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 statues	amod
37	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 acting	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hop about	past	One of children		one leg in his long white nightgown	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
2	stand	past	the other		a chair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location
3	surround	participle		a chair not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	declare speech: other	past	the other not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	act	past · progressive	he	Grecian statues			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent statue=Eventuality

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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