Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 48

Then he would rise from his bed, creep down the ladder--for it could scarcely be called a flight of stairs--and when he reached the fire-pan not a spark could be seen; so he had just to go back again to bed.

Who acts: coal · What happens: rise, creep down, call, reach, see, go back · To what, where: bed, ladder, fire pan, spark · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (coal), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rise	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rise	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rise	aux
4	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bed	nmod:poss
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rise	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 creep	punct
9	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rise	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 creep	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ladder	det
12	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 creep	obj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 called	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 called	nsubj:pass
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 called	aux
17	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	19 called	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 called	aux:pass
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 creep	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 flight	det
21	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 stairs	case
23	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flight	nmod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 reached	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 reached	cc
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 reached	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reached	nsubj
28	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 called	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pan	det
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pan	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 fire	punct
32	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reached	obj
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 spark	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 spark	det
35	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seen	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 seen	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 seen	aux:pass
38	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 reached	advcl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 go	punct
40	so	so	ADV	_	45 go	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 go	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 go	aux
43	just	just	ADV	_	45 go	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 go	mark
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rise	conj
46	back	back	ADV	_	45 go	advmod
47	again	again	ADV	_	45 go	advmod
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 bed	case
49	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 go	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	would	coal		coal's bed	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bed=Initial_Location
2	creep down	infinitive	coal not said here	the ladder				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme
3	call	could · passive		ladder			scarcely property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	reach	past	coal	the fire pan				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pan=Theme
5	see	could · passive		a spark				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	go back	past	coal			again	to bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result

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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