Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 24

One evening, when little Kay was at home, half undressed, he climbed on a chair by the window and peeped out through the little hole.

Who acts: little Kay, window · What happens: be, undress, climb, peep out · To what, where: home, half, chair

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Kay, window), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climbed	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 home	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 home	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Kay	amod
6	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 home	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 home	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 evening	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 home	conj
12	undressed	undress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 half	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 climbed	nsubj
15	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 chair	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 chair	det
18	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climbed	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 window	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climbed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 peeped	cc
23	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 climbed	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 peeped	compound:prt
25	through	through	ADP	_	28 hole	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hole	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hole	amod
28	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 peeped	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	little Kay		home and half			tree rules
2	undress	participle		half not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	climb	past	window		a chair	evening	by the window	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chair=Trajectory
4	peep out	participle	window not said here				through the little hole	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=Theme

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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