Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 68

Here or there one or other of them would sink on his knees, with bleeding temples and a face as white as chalk.

Who acts: one · What happens: sink · To what, where: knees

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 (one), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sink	advmod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 there	cc
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Here	conj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sink	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 other	cc
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 other	obl
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sink	aux
10	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 knees	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 knees	nmod:poss
13	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sink	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 temples	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 temples	case
16	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 temples	compound
17	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sink	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 face	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 face	det
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 temples	conj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 white	case
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 temples	nmod
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 chalk	case
24	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 white	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	one			head's knees; here		with bleeding temples as white and a face	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with temple=Instrument

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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