Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 45
Very soon, however, it would be pushed up again to see if the light was properly put out; he would touch it, press the wick together, and at last pull his nightcap over his eyes and lie down again on the other side.
Who acts: Anthony · What happens: push up, see, put out, touch, press, pull · To what, where: last, light, wick, nightcap, eyes, other side
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 (Anthony), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 pushed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 pushed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pushed | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pushed | aux:pass |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 touch | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 pushed | compound:prt |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 pushed | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pushed | advcl |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 put | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 put | aux:pass |
| 18 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 19 put | advmod |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 see | ccomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 put | compound:prt |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 pushed | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 touch | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 touch | aux |
| 24 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 touch | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 press | punct |
| 27 | press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 touch | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wick | det |
| 29 | wick | wick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 press | obj |
| 30 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 press | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pull | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pull | cc |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 last | case |
| 34 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 pull | amod |
| 35 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 touch | conj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 nightcap | nmod:poss |
| 37 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pull | obj |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 eyes | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 40 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 pull | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 lie | cc |
| 42 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 pull | conj |
| 43 | down | down | ADP | _ | 42 lie | compound:prt |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 42 lie | advmod |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 side | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 side | det |
| 47 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 side | amod |
| 48 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lie | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push up | would · passive | last | again | however, soon property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | put out a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the light | properly property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 4 | touch | would | Anthony | last | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | press | infinitive | Anthony not said here | the wick | together property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wick=Theme | |||
| 6 | pull | infinitive | Anthony not said here | Anthony's nightcap | Anthony's eyes | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightcap=Theme | |||
| 7 | lie down | infinitive | Anthony not said here | the other side | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
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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