Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 123

Good little Ole,' say they to me, 'we cannot close our eyes, and we lie awake the whole night and see all our evil deeds sitting on our beds like little imps, and sprinkling us with hot water.

Who acts: we, evil deeds · What happens: say, not close, lie, see, sit, sprinkle · To what, where: people, me, eyes, evil deeds, beds, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, evil deeds), 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Ole	amod
3	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Good	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Good	conj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 say	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 close	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 close	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 close	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 close	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 close	advmod
15	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	conj
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 close	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lie	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lie	cc
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 lie	nsubj
21	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	parataxis
22	awake	awake	ADP	_	25 night	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 night	det
24	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 night	amod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lie	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lie	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 deeds	det:predet
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 deeds	nmod:poss
30	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 deeds	amod
31	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 see	obj
32	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 deeds	acl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 beds	case
34	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 beds	nmod:poss
35	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sitting	obl
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 imps	case
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 imps	amod
38	imps	imp	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 beds	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sprinkling	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sprinkling	cc
41	sprinkling	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 lie	advcl
42	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 sprinkling	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 water	case
44	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 water	amod
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sprinkling	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive		people	me				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to i=Recipient
2	not close	can	we	our eyes					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	lie	present	we				night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	infinitive	we not said here	our evil deeds					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deed=Stimulus
5	sit	gerund	our evil deeds not said here			our beds like little imps			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
6	sprinkle	gerund	we not said here		us			with hot water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Destination with water=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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