Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 15

Then he laid himself at full length on the table behind a snuff-box that stood upon it, so that he could peep at the little delicate lady, who continued to stand on one leg without losing her balance.

Who acts: lid, snuff box, little delicate lady, lady · What happens: lay, stand, peep, continue, lose, balance · To what, where: lid, full length, box, one leg, balance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lid, snuff box, little delicate lady, lady), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 laid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 laid	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 length	case
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 length	amod
7	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 length	nmod
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 box	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 box	det
13	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 box	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 snuff	punct
15	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 table	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 box	acl:relcl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stood	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 peep	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 peep	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 peep	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 peep	aux
25	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laid	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	30 lady	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lady	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lady	amod
29	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lady	amod
30	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 peep	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 continued	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 continued	nsubj
33	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 lady	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 stand	mark
35	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 continued	xcomp
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 leg	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 leg	nummod
38	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stand	obl
39	without	without	SCONJ	_	40 losing	mark
40	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 stand	advcl
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 balance	nmod:poss
42	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 losing	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	lid	lid	full length on the table behind a snuff box	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at length=Destination
2	stand	past	a snuff box		box			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location
3	peep	could	lid				at the little delicate lady	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lady=Theme
4	continue	past	the little delicate lady					vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	stand	to-infinitive	the little delicate lady not said here		one leg			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
6	lose	gerund	the little delicate lady not said here	lady's balance				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality
7	balance		lady					nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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