Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 70

Then a sailor-boy caught him, and put him in the hen-house, with the fowls, the ducks, and the turkeys, while the poor stork stood quite bewildered amongst them.

Who acts: sailor boy, poor stork · What happens: catch, put, stand, bewilder · To what, where: wing, hen house

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 (sailor boy, poor stork), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 caught	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
3	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sailor	punct
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	nsubj
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 caught	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
14	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 house	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 hen	punct
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fowls	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 fowls	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fowls	det
20	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 put	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ducks	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ducks	det
23	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fowls	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turkeys	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 turkeys	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 turkeys	det
27	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 caught	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stood	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 stood	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stork	det
31	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stork	amod
32	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	nsubj
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	conj
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 bewildered	advmod
35	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 stood	advcl
36	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bewildered	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	a sailor boy	wing		then	the turkeys obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	put	infinitive	a sailor boy not said here	wing	the hen house			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in house=Destination
3	stand	past	the poor stork					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bewilder	participle	the poor stork not said here				amongst storks = stork	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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