Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 8
But at last his eyes closed, and he fell asleep with his head resting against the hard bedpost.
Who acts: John, head · What happens: close, fall, rest · To what, where: last, hard bedpost
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, head), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 closed | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 last | nsubj |
| 6 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 closed | conj |
| 11 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 15 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 head | acl |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 bedpost | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bedpost | det |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bedpost | amod |
| 19 | bedpost | bedpost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 resting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle · passive | last | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | John | with John's head; asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rest | gerund | John's head not said here | the hard bedpost | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against bedpost=Location |
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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