Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 2

The showman went at once to his little theatre and found that it proceeded from the dolls, who all lay on the floor sighing piteously, and staring with their glass eyes; they all wanted to be rubbed with the ointment, so that, like the queen, they might be able to move of themselves.

Who acts: showman, sighing, dolls, people · What happens: go, find, proceed, lay, sigh, stare · To what, where: little theatre, dolls, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (showman, sighing, dolls, people), 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	2 showman	det
2	showman	showman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 went	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 theatre	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 theatre	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 theatre	amod
9	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 proceeded	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 proceeded	nsubj
14	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	ccomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 dolls	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dolls	det
17	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 proceeded	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lay	nsubj
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 lay	advmod
21	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dolls	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 floor	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 floor	det
24	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
25	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 lay	advcl
26	piteously	piteously	ADV	_	25 sighing	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 staring	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 staring	cc
29	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 eyes	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eyes	nmod:poss
32	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eyes	compound
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 staring	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 wanted	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wanted	nsubj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 wanted	advmod
37	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	40 rubbed	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 rubbed	aux:pass
40	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 wanted	xcomp
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 ointment	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ointment	det
43	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rubbed	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 that	punct
45	so	so	SCONJ	_	46 that	case
46	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 wanted	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 able	punct
48	like	like	ADP	_	50 queen	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 queen	det
50	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 able	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 queen	punct
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 able	nsubj
53	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 able	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 able	cop
55	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 wanted	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 move	mark
57	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 able	xcomp
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 themselves	case
59	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	57 move	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the showman	showman's little theatre		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to theatre=Initial_Location
2	find	past	the showman not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	proceed	past	sighing	the dolls		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	lay	present	the dolls	the floor	all property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination
5	sigh	gerund	the dolls not said here		piteously property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stare	gerund	the showman not said here		with dolls's glass eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	want	past	people		so that	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	rub not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	people not said here		with the ointment	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with ointment=Theme
9	is	might	people		like the queen; able property	tree rules
10	move	to-infinitive	people not said here		of people	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme of themselves=Trajectory

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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