Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 4

While he thus walked on his nose suddenly began to bleed; it was a trifling occurrence, but trifles sometimes are of great importance.

Who acts: sea, nose · What happens: walk, begin, bleed, trifle, be · To what, where: trifles, nose, trifling occurrence

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, nose), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 walked	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 nose	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nose	nmod:poss
7	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	9 began	advmod
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nose	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 bleed	mark
11	bleed	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 occurrence	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 occurrence	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 occurrence	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 occurrence	det
16	trifling	trifle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 occurrence	amod
17	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trifles	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 trifles	cc
20	trifles	trifle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walked	obl
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 importance	advmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 importance	cop
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 importance	case
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 importance	amod
25	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trifles	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	sea	trifles	sea's nose	thus property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on nose=Trajectory
2	begin	past	sea's nose not said here			suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	bleed	to-infinitive	sea's nose not said here				vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	trifle	gerund					vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	nose	a trifling occurrence			tree rules
6	is	present				of great importance; sometimes property	tree rules

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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