Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 2

Sometimes I peep into the room, between the curtain and the window frame, when they are not thinking of me.

Who acts: I, curtain · What happens: peep, not be

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 (I, curtain), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 peep	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 peep	nsubj
3	peep	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peep	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 curtain	punct
8	between	between	ADP	_	10 curtain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 curtain	det
10	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peep	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 frame	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 frame	det
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 frame	compound
14	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 curtain	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thinking	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 thinking	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thinking	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 thinking	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 thinking	advmod
20	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 curtain	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 thinking	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 peep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peep	present	I					into the room; sometimes property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into room=Theme
2	not is	present	curtain					of me; think property	tree rules

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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