Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 55

And there he sat through the dark night in the flies, and when he woke, he told a story, but our aunt would not believe it.

Who acts: Judgment, aunt · What happens: sit, wake, tell, not believe · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Judgment, aunt), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 sat	expl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 flies	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flies	det
11	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 woke	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 woke	nsubj
16	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 told	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 woke	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 story	det
21	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 believe	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 believe	cc
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 aunt	nmod:poss
25	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 believe	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 believe	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 believe	advmod
28	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	ccomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 believe	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Judgment		there	night	in the flies	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fly=Location
2	wake	past	Judgment					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	Judgment	a story				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not believe	would	our aunt	story				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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