Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 27

Ah!" there sat the dog, with the eyes as large as teacups, staring at him.

What happens: sit, stare · To what, where: dog

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 large	punct
9	with	with	SCONJ	_	13 large	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eyes	det
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 large	nsubj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 large	advmod
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sat	advcl
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 teacups	case
15	teacups	teacup	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 large	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 staring	punct
17	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 large	advcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 staring	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past		the dog		there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme
2	stare in a quote	gerund						at soldier	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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