Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 108

She stood all day on the roof waiting for him, and most likely she is waiting there still; while he wanders through the world telling fairy tales, but none of them so amusing as the one he related about the matches.

Who acts: bride, son, world · What happens: stand, wait, wander, tell, relate · To what, where: roof, world, fairy tales, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, son, world), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl:unmarked
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 roof	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roof	det
7	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
8	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 waiting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 waiting	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 waiting	cc
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 likely	advmod
14	likely	likely	ADV	_	17 waiting	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 waiting	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 waiting	aux
17	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 waiting	advmod
19	still	still	ADV	_	17 waiting	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 wanders	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 wanders	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wanders	nsubj
23	wanders	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wanders	obl
27	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 world	acl
28	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tales	amod
29	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 telling	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 amusing	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 amusing	cc
32	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	36 amusing	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 none	nmod
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 amusing	advmod
36	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wanders	conj
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 one	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 one	det
39	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 amusing	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 related	nsubj
41	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 one	acl:relcl
42	about	about	ADP	_	44 matches	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 matches	det
44	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 related	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	bride		the roof	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location
2	wait	gerund	bride not said here				for son	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wait	present · progressive	bride		there	still	likely property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wander	present	son		the world			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	the world not said here	fairy tales				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
6	relate	past	son	the one not said here			about the matches	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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