Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 33

As soon as Hjalmar was in bed, Ole-Luk-Oie touched, with his little magic wand, all the furniture in the room, which immediately began to chatter, and each article only talked of itself.

Who acts: Hjalmar, Ole, furniture, article · What happens: be, touch, begin, chatter, talk · To what, where: little magic wand

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, Ole, furniture, article), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 touched	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 bed	case
4	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bed	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bed	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soon	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 soon	punct
9	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 touched	nsubj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Luk	punct
11	Luk	Luk	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ole	conj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Oie	punct
13	Oie	Oie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ole	conj
14	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wand	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 wand	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wand	nmod:poss
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wand	amod
19	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wand	amod
20	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touched	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 furniture	punct
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 furniture	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 furniture	det
24	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wand	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 room	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 room	det
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 furniture	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 began	nsubj
30	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	31 began	advmod
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 furniture	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 chatter	mark
33	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 began	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 talked	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 talked	cc
36	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	37 article	det
37	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 talked	nsubj
38	only	only	ADV	_	39 talked	advmod
39	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 touched	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 itself	case
41	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 talked	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hjalmar		as bed	tree rules
2	touch	past	Ole and Luk and Oie	Ole's little magic wand and all furniture in the room	soon property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wand=Co-Theme
3	begin	past	all furniture in the room		immediately property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	chatter	to-infinitive	all furniture in the room not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	talk	past	each article		of article	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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