Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 186

A little spider, which he could however not see, busily and cheerfully spun its web above him, so that there should be a kind of little banner waving over the old man, when his eyes closed.

Who acts: weather, little banner, eyes · What happens: not see, spin, be, wave, close · To what, where: little spider, web, kind

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, little banner, eyes), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spider	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spider	amod
3	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 see	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
8	however	however	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spider	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 busily	punct
12	busily	busily	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spun	cc
14	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	15 spun	advmod
15	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 busily	conj
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 web	nmod:poss
17	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spun	obj
18	above	above	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spun	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kind	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 kind	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 be	mark
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 be	expl
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 be	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 kind	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 kind	det
27	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 banner	case
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 banner	amod
30	banner	banner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kind	nmod
31	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 banner	acl
32	over	over	ADP	_	35 man	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 man	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 man	amod
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 waving	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 closed	punct
37	when	when	SCONJ	_	40 closed	mark
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 eyes	nmod:poss
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 closed	nsubj
40	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 kind	parataxis
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spider	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	could	weather	a little spider	busily, however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
2	spin	past	weather not said here	spider's web	above weather; cheerfully property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent web=Theme
3	is a	infinitive		a kind	of little banner	tree rules
4	wave	gerund	little banner not said here		over the old man	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over man=Location
5	close	participle	weather's eyes			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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