Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 6

The student nodded in return as he turned to leave, then suddenly stopped, and began reading the piece of paper in which the cheese was wrapped.

Who acts: student · What happens: nod, turn, leave, stop, begin, read · To what, where: piece, cheese, paper

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 student	det
2	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nodded	nsubj
3	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 return	case
5	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nodded	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 turned	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nodded	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 leave	mark
10	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 turned	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 stopped	advmod
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 stopped	advmod
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 leave	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nodded	conj
18	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 began	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 piece	det
20	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reading	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 paper	case
22	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piece	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 wrapped	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cheese	det
26	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wrapped	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wrapped	aux:pass
28	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 paper	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	past	the student				in return	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in return=Theme
2	turn	past	student					tree rules
3	leave	to-infinitive	student not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	past	student not said here			then	suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	begin	past	the student not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	read	gerund	the student not said here	the piece of paper				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic
7	wrap	past · passive		the cheese	paper			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination

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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