Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 89
Mr. Waistcoat seized the old Pipe-head and put him in his pocket; there he lies, and the Waistcoat says:
Who acts: Waistcoat, head · What happens: seize, put, lie, say · To what, where: old Pipe head, head, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waistcoat, head), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Waistcoat | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Waistcoat | Waistcoat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 head | amod |
| 6 | Pipe | Pipe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 head | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pipe | punct |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seized | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pocket | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 14 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl | ||
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lies | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 lies | expl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lies | nsubj |
| 18 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 says | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 says | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Waistcoat | det |
| 22 | Waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 says | nsubj |
| 23 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lies | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Waistcoat Mr. | the old Pipe head | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Waistcoat Mr. not said here | head | head's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 3 | lie | present | head | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the Waistcoat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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