Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 11

But when we succeeded in bringing him home, and prevailed upon him to open the book with the dried-up plants in it, he would sometimes sit for a whole day looking at this or that plant, while frequently the tears rolled over his cheeks.

Who acts: we, student, tears · What happens: succeed, bring, prevail, open, dry up, sit · To what, where: student, book, cheeks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, student, tears), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 prevailed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 succeeded	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 succeeded	nsubj
4	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 prevailed	advcl
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 bringing	mark
6	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 succeeded	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bringing	obj
8	home	home	ADV	_	6 bringing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 prevailed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 prevailed	cc
11	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 prevailed	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 open	mark
15	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 prevailed	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 book	det
17	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 open	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	23 plants	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 plants	det
20	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 plants	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 up	punct
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 dried	compound:prt
23	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 book	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 plants	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sit	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sit	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sit	aux
29	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 sit	advmod
30	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 prevailed	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 day	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 day	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 day	amod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sit	obl
35	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sit	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 this	case
37	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 looking	obl
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 plant	cc
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 plant	det
40	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 looking	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 rolled	punct
42	while	while	SCONJ	_	46 rolled	mark
43	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	46 rolled	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 tears	det
45	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 rolled	nsubj
46	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sit	conj
47	over	over	ADP	_	49 cheeks	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 cheeks	nmod:poss
49	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 rolled	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 prevailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	succeed	past	we						vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	gerund	we not said here		student			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
3	prevail	past						upon student	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
4	open	to-infinitive		the book				with the dried plants in book	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent book=Patient with plant=Instrument
5	dry up	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	sit	would	student				day	sometimes property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look	gerund	student not said here					at this	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at this=Theme
8	roll	past	the tears			student's cheeks		frequently property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cheek=Trajectory

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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