Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 184

Hjalmar nodded, and then sprang out of bed, and turned his great-grandfather's portrait to the wall, so that it might not interrupt them as it had done yesterday. "

Who acts: Hjalmar, bed, great grandfather · What happens: nod, spring out, turn, not interrupt, do, portray · To what, where: bed, portrait, wall, walls

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 (Hjalmar, bed, great grandfather), 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	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 nodded	nsubj
2	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sprang	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sprang	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sprang	advmod
6	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nodded	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 bed	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprang	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turned	cc
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nodded	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grandfather	nmod:poss
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grandfather	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 great	punct
16	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 portrait	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 grandfather	case
18	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 wall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 interrupt	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 interrupt	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 interrupt	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 interrupt	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 interrupt	advmod
28	interrupt	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 turned	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 interrupt	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 done	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 done	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 done	aux
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 interrupt	advcl
34	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 done	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 nodded	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	nod	past	Hjalmar				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spring out	past	Hjalmar not said here	bed		then	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bed=Theme
3	turn	past		Hjalmar's great grandfather's portrait	the wall		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme to wall=Trajectory
4	not interrupt	might	bed	walls = wall			tree rules
5	do	past · perfect · passive		bed		yesterday	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	portray		Hjalmar's great grandfather				nom portrait «communication 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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