Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 37

The first night he slept on a haystack, out in the fields, for there was no other bed for him; but it seemed to him so nice and comfortable that even a king need not wish for a better.

Who acts: John, it, king · What happens: sleep, be, seem, not wish · To what, where: haystack, other bed, John

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, it, king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slept	nsubj
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 haystack	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 haystack	det
8	haystack	haystack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fields	punct
10	out	out	ADV	_	13 fields	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 fields	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fields	det
13	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slept	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bed	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 was	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bed	cop
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 bed	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bed	amod
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bed	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 seemed	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slept	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seemed	obl
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 nice	advmod
30	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 seemed	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 comfortable	cc
32	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 nice	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 wish	mark
34	even	even	ADV	_	36 king	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 king	det
36	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wish	nsubj
37	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 wish	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 wish	advmod
39	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 nice	advcl
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 better	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 better	det
42	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 wish	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	John			a haystack	night	in the fields	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location
2	is a	past		no other bed				for John	tree rules
3	seem	past	it		John			nice property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	not wish	present	a king					for a better	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for good=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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