Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 18

And as he sat thus, the thought came upon him whether the Story might not have hidden itself, like the princess in the old tale.

Who acts: man, thought · What happens: sit, come, not hide · To what, where: Story

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 (man, thought), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 sat	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thought	det
8	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	obl
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 hidden	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Story	det
14	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 hidden	nsubj:pass
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hidden	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 hidden	advmod
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 hidden	aux
18	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 came	advcl
19	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 hidden	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 princess	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 princess	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 princess	det
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hidden	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 tale	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tale	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tale	amod
27	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 princess	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	man		thus property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the thought		upon man	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
3	not hide	might · perfect · passive		the Story	like the princess in the old tale	tree rules

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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