Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 56

"Away, away!" barked the yard-dog; "I'll tell you; they said I was a pretty little fellow once; then I used to lie in a velvet-covered chair, up at the master's house, and sit in the mistress's lap.

Who acts: people · What happens: bark, tell, say, be, use, lie · To what, where: yard dog, you, pretty little fellow, house, covered chair, lap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Away	punct
2	Away	away	ADV	_	7 barked	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 away	punct
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 Away	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Away	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 barked	punct
7	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dog	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 yard	punct
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barked	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 barked	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	advcl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 fellow	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fellow	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fellow	det
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fellow	amod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fellow	amod
26	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 fellow	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 used	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 used	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 used	nsubj
31	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 barked	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 lie	mark
33	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 used	xcomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	39 chair	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 chair	det
36	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 covered	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 velvet	punct
38	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 chair	amod
39	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lie	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 house	punct
41	up	up	ADV	_	46 house	advmod
42	at	at	ADP	_	46 house	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 master	det
44	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 house	nmod:poss
45	's	's	PART	_	44 master	case
46	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 used	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sit	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sit	cc
49	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 used	conj
50	in	in	ADP	_	54 lap	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 mistress	det
52	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 lap	nmod:poss
53	's	's	PART	_	52 mistress	case
54	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sit	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 barked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past		the yard dog				away property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	people		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	people						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	past	people	a pretty little fellow				once property	tree rules
5	use in a quote	past	people			the master's house	then		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	lie in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here			a covered chair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
7	cover in a quote	participle							vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
8	sit in a quote	present	people not said here			the mistress's lap			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=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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