Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 9

So he drew them on, thrust his papers into his pocket, placed a few manuscripts under his arm, which he had to take with him, and to make abstracts from at home.

Who acts: pair, arm · What happens: draw on, place, have, take, make · To what, where: clerks, pocket, few manuscripts, arm, abstracts, home

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pair, arm), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 drew	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thrust	punct
7	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	parataxis
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 papers	nmod:poss
9	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thrust	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 pocket	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pocket	nmod:poss
12	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 placed	punct
14	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 manuscripts	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 manuscripts	amod
17	manuscripts	manuscript	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 placed	obj
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 arm	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arm	nmod:poss
20	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 placed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 had	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 arm	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	xcomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 make	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 placed	conj
33	abstracts	abstract	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 make	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 home	case
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 home	case
36	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw on	past	pair	clerks = clerk		into pair's pocket result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient into pocket=Result
2	place	past	pair not said here	a few manuscripts	pair's arm		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent manuscript=Theme under arm=Destination
3	have	past	pair	pair's arm			tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive	pair's arm not said here			with pair	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	make	to-infinitive	pair not said here	abstracts	home		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset abstract=Product from home=Material

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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