Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 49

But often, when he had got half way back, he would fancy the iron shutters of the door were not properly fastened, and his thin legs would carry him down again.

Who acts: coal, thin legs · What happens: get, fancy, not fasten, carry down · To what, where: iron shutters, coal

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, thin legs), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
2	often	often	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	obl:unmarked
10	back	back	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fancy	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fancy	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fancy	aux
14	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 got	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shutters	det
16	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shutters	compound
17	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fastened	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shutters	nmod
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fastened	aux:pass
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 fastened	advmod
23	properly	properly	ADV	_	24 fastened	advmod
24	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fancy	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 carry	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 carry	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 legs	nmod:poss
28	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 legs	amod
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 carry	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 carry	aux
31	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fancy	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 carry	obj
33	down	down	ADP	_	31 carry	compound:prt
34	again	again	ADV	_	31 carry	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	coal			often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	fancy	would	coal				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	not fasten	past · passive		the iron shutters of the door		properly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	carry down	would	coal's thin legs	coal	again		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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