Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 37

I cannot bear it," said she, "I must get out of the drawer;" but when they reached the floor, and cast their eyes on the table, there was the old Chinaman awake and shaking his whole body, till all at once down he came on the floor, "plump." "

Who acts: I, comedy, drawers, old Chinaman, place · What happens: not bear, say, get out, reach, cast, be · To what, where: play, drawer, floor, eyes, table, whole body · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, comedy, drawers, old Chinaman), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bear	advmod
4	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bear	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	acl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 drawer	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 drawer	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 drawer	det
18	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 awake	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 awake	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 was	cc
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 reached	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reached	nsubj
24	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 was	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 floor	det
26	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reached	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cast	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cast	cc
29	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 reached	conj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cast	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 table	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 table	det
34	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cast	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reached	punct
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 awake	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Chinaman	det
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Chinaman	amod
40	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 awake	nsubj
41	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 shaking	cc
43	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 awake	conj
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 body	nmod:poss
45	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 body	amod
46	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 shaking	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 all	punct
48	till	till	ADP	_	49 all	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bear	parataxis
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 once	case
51	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 bear	obl
52	down	down	ADP	_	54 came	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 came	nsubj
54	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	advcl
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 floor	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 floor	det
57	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 came	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 plump	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	60 plump	punct
60	plump	plump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bear	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bear	can	I	play			tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	comedy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	get out	must	I	the drawer			tree rules
4	reach in a quote	past	drawers = drawer	the floor			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent floor=Theme
5	cast in a quote	infinitive	drawers = drawer not said here	drawers's eyes	the table		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on table=Destination
6	is in a quote	past	the old Chinaman			awake property	tree rules
7	shake in a quote	gerund	the old Chinaman not said here	place's whole body			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent body=Patient
8	come in a quote	past	place		the floor		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=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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