Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 117
Just then it came into his mind that he would stoop under the table, and so creep to the door.
Who acts: One, country · What happens: come, stoop, creep, mind · To what, where: mind, table, door
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, country), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 stoop | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stoop | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stoop | aux |
| 11 | stoop | stoop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 table | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 table | det |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stoop | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 creep | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 creep | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 creep | advmod |
| 18 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 creep | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | One | country's mind | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stoop | would | country | the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location | ||||
| 3 | creep | infinitive | One not said here | the door | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination | ||||
| 4 | mind | country | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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