Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 51

He would draw the coverlet closer round him, pull his nightcap over his eyes, and try to turn his thoughts from trade, and from the labors of the day, to olden times.

Who acts: coal · What happens: draw, pull, try, turn, think · To what, where: coverlet, labors, nightcap, eyes, thoughts, trade

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 draw	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 draw	aux
3	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coverlet	det
5	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obj
6	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 draw	advmod
7	round	round	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 closer	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pull	punct
10	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 draw	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nightcap	nmod:poss
12	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pull	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 eyes	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pull	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 try	cc
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 draw	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 turn	mark
20	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 try	xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 thoughts	nmod:poss
22	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turn	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 trade	case
24	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turn	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 labors	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 labors	cc
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 labors	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 labors	det
29	labors	labor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 draw	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 day	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 labors	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 times	punct
34	to	to	PART	_	35 olden	mark
35	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 times	amod
36	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 labors	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	would	coal	the coverlet	the labors of the day and olden times	close property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent coverlet=Theme from labor=Initial_Location
2	pull	infinitive	coal not said here	coal's nightcap	coal's eyes		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightcap=Theme
3	try	infinitive	coal not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive	coal not said here	coal's thoughts	trade		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thought=Theme from trade=Trajectory
5	think		coal				nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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