Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 132

Indeed they were continually making three foot-scrapings with the left foot and also said "Peep!"

Who acts: man · What happens: make, say · To what, where: three foot scrapings, Peep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 making	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 making	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 making	aux
4	continually	continually	ADV	_	5 making	advmod
5	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 scrapings	nummod
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scrapings	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 foot	punct
9	scrapings	scraping	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 making	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 foot	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 foot	det
12	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 foot	amod
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 making	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	also	also	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 making	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Peep	punct
18	Peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 Peep	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Peep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · progressive	man	three foot scrapings				with the left foot; continually, indeed property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scraping=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	man not said here	Peep					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peep=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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