Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 88

After this he opened the window, and flew away over the town, straight towards the palace, and seated himself in a corner, under the window which looked into the bedroom of the princess.

Who acts: John, window · What happens: open, fly away, seat, look · To what, where: window, town, John, corner

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 (John, window), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 opened	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 flew	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 palace	punct
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 palace	advmod
16	towards	towards	ADP	_	18 palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 town	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seated	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 seated	cc
21	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 seated	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 corner	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 corner	det
25	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seated	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 window	punct
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 window	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 window	det
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seated	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 looked	nsubj
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 window	acl:relcl
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 bedroom	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bedroom	det
34	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looked	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 princess	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 princess	det
37	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bedroom	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	John	the window		after this		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme
2	fly away	past	John not said here		the town and the palace		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over town=Location
3	seat	past	John not said here	John	a corner		under the window	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in corner=Location
4	look	past	the window				into the bedroom of the princess	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into bedroom=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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