Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 173

I sat there on the cupboard, and had all the twelve little new-born Will-o'-the-Wisps upon my lap.

Who acts: I, twelve · What happens: sit, have, bear · To what, where: cupboard, twelve

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, twelve), 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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sat	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 cupboard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cupboard	det
6	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 twelve	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 twelve	det
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 had	obj
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 twelve	amod
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 born	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 new	punct
16	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 little	xcomp
17	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 o	aux
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 o	punct
19	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	16 born	obl
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 o	punct
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Wisps	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Wisps	det
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 the	punct
24	Wisps	wisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 '	conj
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 lap	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lap	nmod:poss
27	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Wisps	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	I		the cupboard; there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cupboard=Location
2	have	past	I not said here	all twelve		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
3	bear	participle	all twelve not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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