Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 19

While seated in the evening on his little cane-chair, he had often heard his father read from Gellert's fables, and sometimes from Klopstock's grand poem, "The Messiah."

Who acts: boy, father · What happens: seat, hear, read · To what, where: fables

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, father), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 seated	mark
2	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 heard	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 evening	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 evening	det
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seated	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	11 chair	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 chair	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chair	amod
9	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chair	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 cane	punct
11	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 evening	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 seated	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 heard	advmod
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 read	nsubj
19	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 fables	case
21	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 fables	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Gellert	case
23	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 read	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 poem	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 poem	cc
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 poem	advmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	31 poem	case
28	Klopstock	Klopstock	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 poem	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Klopstock	case
30	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 poem	amod
31	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Messiah	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Messiah	punct
34	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Messiah	det
35	Messiah	Messiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 poem	appos
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 Messiah	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Messiah	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	participle	boy not said here		evening		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
2	hear	past · perfect	boy			often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	read	past	boy's father	Gellert's fables			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from fable=Source

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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