Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 57
They saw him jump up feverishly from his miserable couch and take a loose stone out of the wall; there lay gold coins in an old stocking.
Who acts: men, footman · What happens: see, jump up, take, lie · To what, where: footman, miserable couch, loose stone, wall, gold coins, old stocking
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, footman), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 jump | advmod |
| 6 | feverishly | feverishly | ADV | _ | 4 jump | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 couch | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 couch | nmod:poss |
| 9 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 couch | amod |
| 10 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 jump | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 14 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stone | amod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 wall | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 lay | expl |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 coins | compound |
| 24 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lay | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 stocking | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stocking | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stocking | amod |
| 28 | stocking | stocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | men = man | footman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jump up | infinitive | footman not said here | footman's miserable couch | feverishly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from couch=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | footman not said here | a loose stone | the wall | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme out wall=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | lie | past | gold coins | a old stocking; there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coin=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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