Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 112

He sat on a wheel-chair, and had paper, and pen, and ink, and wrote down everything.

Who acts: lot · What happens: sit, have, write down · To what, where: wheel chair, paper, everything

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (lot), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 chair	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chair	det
5	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chair	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 wheel	punct
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
11	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pen	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pen	cc
14	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 paper	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ink	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ink	cc
17	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wrote	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wrote	cc
20	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 wrote	compound:prt
22	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 wrote	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	lot		a wheel chair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location
2	have	past	lot not said here	paper and pen		ink obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient
3	write down	past	lot not said here	everything			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

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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