Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 58
Then I shut down the lid, and seated myself upon the box. '
Who acts: I · What happens: shut down, seat · To what, where: lid, myself
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 3 shut | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 shut | nsubj |
| 3 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 shut | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lid | det |
| 6 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seated | cc |
| 9 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shut | parataxis |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 seated | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 box | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 box | det |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seated | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shut | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut down | present | I | the lid | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lid=Patient | |||
| 2 | seat | past | myself | upon the box | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location myself=Value |
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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