Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 7

All at once, a person in black, of student-like appearance, entered the room, and sat down; he laughed aloud at the telling points, and applauded quite at the proper time.

Who acts: person, man · What happens: enter, sit down, laugh, applaud · To what, where: room, telling points

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 (person, man), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 person	det
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 All	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 All	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 entered	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 black	case
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 person	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 appearance	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 appearance	case
11	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 like	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 student	punct
13	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 appearance	amod
14	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 person	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 person	punct
16	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 entered	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sat	cc
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 entered	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sat	compound:prt
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 laughed	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 laughed	nsubj
25	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 entered	parataxis
26	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	25 laughed	advmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 points	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 points	det
29	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 points	compound
30	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 laughed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 applauded	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 applauded	cc
33	applauded	applaud	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 laughed	conj
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 applauded	advmod
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 time	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 time	det
37	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 time	amod
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 applauded	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	all person in black and like appearance	the room				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
2	sit down	past	all person in black and like appearance not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	past	man		the telling points		aloud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	applaud	past	man not said here			time		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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