Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 4

They crept under the straw, and drew an old bit of ragged curtain over themselves by way of coverlet. "

Who acts: children · What happens: creep, draw · To what, where: straw, old bit

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 straw	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 straw	det
5	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drew	cc
8	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	conj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bit	amod
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drew	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 curtain	case
13	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 curtain	amod
14	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bit	nmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 themselves	case
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 drew	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 way	case
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drew	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 coverlet	case
20	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 way	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crept	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	children = child			the straw			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under straw=Trajectory
2	draw	past	children = child not said here	a old bit of ragged curtain				over children = child; by way of coverlet	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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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