Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 73

I myself helped to rescue cattle and things, nothing alive burnt, except a flight of pigeons, which flew into the fire, and the yard dog, of which I had not thought; one could hear him howl out of the fire, and this howling I still hear when I wish to sleep; and when I have fallen asleep, the great rough dog comes and places himself upon me, and howls, presses, and tortures me.

Who acts: I, pigeons, one, dog, howling, great rough dog · What happens: help, rescue, fly, not think, hear, howl out · To what, where: cattle, fire, yard dog, dog

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 (I, pigeons, one, dog), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 helped	nsubj
2	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 I	obl:unmarked
3	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rescue	mark
5	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helped	xcomp
6	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rescue	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 things	cc
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cattle	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 cattle	conj
11	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 burnt	amod
12	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nothing	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flight	punct
14	except	except	ADP	_	16 flight	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 flight	det
16	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rescue	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 pigeons	case
18	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flight	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flew	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 flew	nsubj
21	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pigeons	acl:relcl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flew	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thought	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thought	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dog	det
28	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dog	compound
29	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thought	nsubj:pass
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thought	punct
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 thought	obl
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 thought	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 thought	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 thought	advmod
36	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 helped	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 hear	punct
38	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 hear	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 hear	aux
40	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 thought	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 hear	obj
42	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 hear	xcomp
43	out	out	ADP	_	46 fire	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 fire	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fire	det
46	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 howl	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 hear	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 hear	cc
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 howling	det
50	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 hear	nsubj
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 hear	nsubj
52	still	still	ADV	_	53 hear	advmod
53	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 hear	conj
54	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	56 wish	advmod
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 wish	nsubj
56	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 hear	advcl
57	to	to	PART	_	58 sleep	mark
58	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 wish	xcomp
59	;	;	PUNCT	_	71 comes	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 comes	cc
61	when	when	SCONJ	_	64 fallen	mark
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 fallen	nsubj
63	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 fallen	aux
64	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	71 comes	advcl
65	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 fallen	xcomp
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 comes	punct
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 dog	det
68	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 dog	amod
69	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 dog	amod
70	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 comes	nsubj
71	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 thought	parataxis
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	85 me	cc
73	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	85 me	nsubj
74	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	73 places	nmod:unmarked
75	upon	upon	ADP	_	76 me	case
76	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	73 places	nmod
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	85 me	punct
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	85 me	cc
79	howls	howl	NOUN	Number=Plur	85 me	nsubj
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 presses	punct
81	presses	press	NOUN	Number=Plur	79 howls	conj
82	,	,	PUNCT	_	84 tortures	punct
83	and	and	CCONJ	_	84 tortures	cc
84	tortures	torture	NOUN	Number=Plur	79 howls	conj
85	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	71 comes	conj
86	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	I				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	rescue	to-infinitive	I not said here	cattle and things		except a flight of pigeons	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme
3	fly	past	pigeons			into the fire result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fire=Result
4	not think speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the yard dog			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	hear	could	one	dog			tree rules
6	howl out	infinitive	dog not said here	the fire			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
7	hear	present	this howling		still		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
8	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	fall	present · perfect	I			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	come	present	the great rough dog				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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