Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 25
He felt very tired; so he sat down under the tree, and very soon began to nod, then his eyes closed in sleep.
Who acts: Knud · What happens: feel, sit down, begin, nod, close · To what, where: tree, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knud), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 tired | advmod |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 sat | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 sat | compound:prt |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 began | advmod |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 nod | mark |
| 19 | nod | nod | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eyes | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 eyes | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 nod | obj |
| 24 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 eyes | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 sleep | case |
| 26 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 closed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Knud | tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | Knud | the tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Knud not said here | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | nod | to-infinitive | Knud not said here | Knud's eyes | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 5 | close | participle | Knud's eyes not said here | in sleep | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sleep=Topic |
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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