Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 51

Sit you down now under the green bindwood and pay attention, when Phantaesus comes I will find an opportunity to lay hold of his wing and to pull out one of the little feathers.

Who acts: you, Phantaesus, I · What happens: sit down, pay, come, find, lay, pull out · To what, where: you, green bindwood, attention, opportunity, hold, one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Phantaesus, I), 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	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Sit	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Sit	advmod
5	under	under	ADP	_	8 bindwood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bindwood	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bindwood	amod
8	bindwood	bindwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sit	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pay	cc
10	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
11	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pay	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 comes	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 comes	advmod
14	Phantaesus	Phantaesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 comes	nsubj
15	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	parataxis
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 comes	xcomp
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 opportunity	det
20	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 lay	mark
22	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 opportunity	acl
23	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 wing	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wing	nmod:poss
26	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pull	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 pull	mark
29	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lay	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 pull	compound:prt
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 pull	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 feathers	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 feathers	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 feathers	amod
35	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 one	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here	you	the green bindwood	now	tree rules
2	pay	infinitive	you not said here	attention			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
3	come	present	Phantaesus				tree rules
4	find	future	I	a opportunity			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic
5	lay	to-infinitive	I not said here	hold of Phantaesus's wing			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
6	pull out	to-infinitive	I not said here	one of the little feathers			vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hold			Phantaesus's wing			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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