Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 19

Then there floated over her all sorts of things,--chips and straws, and pieces of old newspaper. "

What happens: float, sort · To what, where: sorts, things

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 floated	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 floated	advmod
3	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 floated	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sorts	det
7	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 floated	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 things	case
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sorts	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 things	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 chips	punct
12	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 things	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 straws	cc
14	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 chips	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pieces	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pieces	cc
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 floated	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 newspaper	case
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 newspaper	amod
20	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pieces	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 floated	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	past		all sorts of things and chips and straws		there	then	over needle; pieces of old newspaper obl	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sort=Theme over she=Trajectory
2	sort			things and chips and straws					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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