Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 70

One of them stands upright in the bow of the boat, and the others watch him sitting with the oars in their hands.

Who acts: One, others, Jurgen · What happens: stand, watch, sit · To what, where: bow, Jurgen, hands

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, others, Jurgen), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stands	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upright	upright	ADV	_	4 stands	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bow	det
8	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stands	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 boat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boat	det
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bow	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 watch	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 watch	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 others	det
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 watch	nsubj
16	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stands	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 watch	obj
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 watch	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 oars	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 oars	det
21	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sitting	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sitting	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present	One of seas		the bow of the boat	upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bow=Location
2	watch	present	the others	Jurgen			tree rules
3	sit	gerund	Jurgen not said here		seas's hands	with the oars	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location

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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