Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 62

"The plates rattled with pleasure, and the carpet-broom brought some green parsley out of the dust-hole and crowned the saucepan, for he knew it would vex the others; and he thought, 'If I crown him to-day he will crown me to-morrow.'

Who acts: plates, carpet broom, pleasure, saucepan · What happens: rattle, bring, crown, know, vex, think · To what, where: green parsley, dust hole, saucepan, others, pleasure · 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 (plates, carpet broom, pleasure, saucepan), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rattled	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plates	det
3	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rattled	nsubj
4	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 pleasure	case
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rattled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brought	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 broom	det
10	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broom	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 carpet	punct
12	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	nsubj
13	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rattled	parataxis
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 parsley	det
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 parsley	amod
16	parsley	parsley	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	22 hole	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 hole	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hole	det
20	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hole	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 dust	punct
22	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 crowned	cc
24	crowned	crown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 saucepan	det
26	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 crowned	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 knew	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 crowned	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 vex	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 vex	aux
33	vex	vex	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 knew	ccomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 others	det
35	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 vex	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 thought	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 thought	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 thought	nsubj
39	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rattled	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 crown	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	51 crown	punct
42	If	if	SCONJ	_	44 crown	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 crown	nsubj
44	crown	crown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 crown	advcl
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 crown	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 day	case
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 to	punct
48	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 crown	obl
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 crown	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 crown	aux
51	crown	crown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 thought	ccomp
52	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 crown	obj
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 morrow	case
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 to	punct
55	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 crown	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rattled	punct
57	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 rattled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rattle in a quote	participle	the plates				with pleasure	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pleasure=Theme
2	bring in a quote	past	the carpet broom	some green parsley	the dust hole			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent parsley=Theme out hole=Initial_Location
3	crown in a quote	past	the carpet broom not said here	the saucepan				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucepan=Theme
4	know in a quote	past	pleasure					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	vex in a quote	would	saucepan	the others				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer
6	think speech: other in a quote	past	pleasure					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	crown a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	pleasure	pleasure		day		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	crown in a quote	future	pleasure	pleasure			to morrow	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme to morrow=Attribute

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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