Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 12

But one day, as he was lying in the purse, he noticed that it was not quite closed, and so he slipped near to the opening to have a little peep into society.

Who acts: man · What happens: lie, notice, not close, slip, have · To what, where: purse, little peep, society

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 lying	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lying	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 lying	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lying	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lying	aux
8	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 noticed	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 purse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 purse	det
11	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lying	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 noticed	nsubj
14	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 closed	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 closed	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 closed	aux:pass
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 closed	advmod
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 closed	advmod
20	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 noticed	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slipped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 slipped	cc
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 slipped	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 slipped	nsubj
25	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 noticed	parataxis
26	near	near	ADV	_	25 slipped	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 opening	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 opening	det
29	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slipped	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 have	mark
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 slipped	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 peep	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 peep	amod
34	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 society	case
36	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	man		the purse	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in purse=Location
2	notice	past	man					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not close	past · passive		purse				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	slip	past	man				to the opening; near property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	have	to-infinitive	man not said here	a little peep	society			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peep=Patient

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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