Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 9

There he sat one day, and held his magnifying-glass to his eye, and looked at a drop of water that had been taken out of a puddle by the ditch.

Who acts: man, ditch · What happens: sit, hold, look, take out · To what, where: magnifying glass, drop, puddle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, ditch), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sat	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 held	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 held	cc
8	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 glass	nmod:poss
10	magnifying	magnifying	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glass	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 magnifying	punct
12	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 held	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 eye	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eye	nmod:poss
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 held	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 drop	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 drop	det
21	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 water	case
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drop	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 taken	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 taken	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 taken	aux:pass
27	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 drop	acl:relcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 puddle	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 puddle	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 puddle	det
31	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taken	obl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 ditch	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ditch	det
34	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taken	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	man		there	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold	past	man not said here	man's magnifying glass			to man's eye	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
3	look	past	man not said here				at a drop of water	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at drop=Theme
4	take out	past · perfect · passive	the ditch	a drop of water	a puddle			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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