Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 13

He let me run about on his hand, and on his arm, and into his sleeve; and I even crept into his beard, and he called me his little friend.

Who acts: hole, me, I · What happens: let, run about, creep, call · To what, where: me, arm, hand, beard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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 (hole, me, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 arm	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 arm	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 arm	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arm	nmod:poss
13	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sleeve	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sleeve	cc
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 sleeve	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sleeve	nmod:poss
18	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 crept	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 crept	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 crept	nsubj
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 crept	advmod
23	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	parataxis
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 beard	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 beard	nmod:poss
26	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crept	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 called	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 called	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 called	nsubj
30	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 crept	parataxis
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 called	obj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 friend	nmod:poss
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 friend	amod
34	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 called	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	hole	me		hole's arm	into hole's sleeve	tree rules
2	run about	infinitive	me not said here			hole's hand	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory
3	creep	past	I			hole's beard		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into beard=Destination
4	call	past	hole		me			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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