Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 25
With one spring he was out of bed, and crept softly behind the curtain.
Who acts: wind, bed · What happens: be, creep · To what, where: bed, curtain
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, bed), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 spring | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 spring | nummod |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bed | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crept | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crept | cc |
| 11 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bed | acl:relcl |
| 12 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 11 crept | advmod |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 curtain | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 curtain | det |
| 15 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wind | bed | spring | tree rules | |||
| 2 | creep | past | bed not said here | the curtain | softly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind curtain=Trajectory |
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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