Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 181

He nodded at the sleeping-bench, where he had slept as a little boy; but the old Fire-drum he brought out, and dragged it into the middle of the room, and said to it and to his mother:

Who acts: face, old Fire drum · What happens: nod, sleep, bring out, drag, say · To what, where: sleeping bench, bench, middle, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, old Fire drum), 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 nodded	nsubj
2	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 bench	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bench	det
5	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bench	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sleeping	punct
7	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nodded	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slept	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 slept	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slept	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slept	aux
12	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 bench	acl:relcl
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 boy	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slept	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 brought	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 drum	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 drum	amod
21	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 drum	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Fire	punct
23	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brought	nsubj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	nsubj
25	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nodded	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 brought	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dragged	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dragged	cc
29	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nodded	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dragged	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 middle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 middle	det
33	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dragged	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 room	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 room	det
36	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 middle	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nodded	parataxis
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 said	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 mother	cc
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 mother	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 mother	nmod:poss
45	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 said	conj
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	nod	past	face			the sleeping bench		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	past · perfect	face				as a little boy	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring out	past	the old Fire drum					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	drag	past	face not said here	bench		the middle of the room		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past			room			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient

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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